So why do you love your BlackBerry?

The current campaign for BlackBerry is very smart. Consider the challenge just one year ago. The early adopters had embraced the technology, but they’re not sympathetic folks. They are the descendents of Homo Yuppus, the alpha-tycoons perceived as those who...

Why the sentence is bad.

“Ask Someone Why They Love Their BlackBerry” is a classic nightmare for anyone who cares for grammar. It’s main problem is with the disagreement in number: “Someone” and “BlackBerry” are singular. “They” and...

My first student

When I was 17, I worked a summer at the now extinct Don C. Power Farm in Galloway, Ohio. On a crew with two friends, our main job was painting an unending fence. Many long hours were spent painting the fence, and then accidentally spilling paint on each other, and...

The end of my running career

It’s been a couple weeks since the Columbus Marathon and several donors have asked, “So how did it go?” (If you want to be a donor, click here. It’s not too late to support hospice. I’m only $206 away from my goal of $5,000. Thanks to the...

Trick or Treat

After many years of scowling at Halloween — the raising of the dead, the ghoulishness, the begging for and gorging on candy, children dangerously running across slick, leaf covered streets, half blinded by masks, the commercialization of the day, the ruin of the...