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Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel has accepted a new job.  He will be moving to Akron and taking a position at the University of Akron — not as a football coach, but as the Vice President for Strategic Engagement. I’m happy for Mr. Tressel (although I will always think of him as Coach [...]

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One of the largest — and most tattered — books on Grandpa’s bookshelf is a volume called Masters of Achievement.  From its condition, it obviously was a favorite, read over and over again.  What kind of book was so well-thumbed? Masters of Achievement was published by the Frontier Press Company of Buffalo, N.Y. in 1913.   [...]

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If you are a married man, you’ve probably experienced this scenario.  You and your wife are friends with a couple.  You innocently mention to your lovely bride that you are going to have lunch, or a beer, or play golf with the male member of the couple.  When you return home afterward, your spouse bombards [...]

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What makes some people so long-lived?  In the classic science fiction story Methuselah’s Children, Robert A. Heinlein postulated that extreme longevity could be achieved by genetics.  Encourage long-lived families to mate with each other, and in a few generations you would produce the ageless Lazarus Long, who lived well past the age of 200. Now [...]

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Not everything that I’ve inherited from Grandpa Neal’s bookshelf is a book.  Like most of us, his bookshelf also contained pictures, knick-knacks, souvenirs, and other stray items — including a striking metal horse. I don’t know much about this horse, except that it is a beautiful little piece — about eight inches high and eight [...]

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Yesterday Kish and I were at a store and she bought two new pairs of sunglasses. It’s a familiar scene.  By my rough estimate, with these two new additions, Kish has now owned 3,461 pairs of sunglasses during our years of wedded bliss. Unfortunately, the life spans of those unlucky eyewear items tend to be [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all from the Webners.  May your days be merry and filled with the joy of family, friends — and a day off.

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You wake up and feel pretty good.  You walk downstairs, look outside, and see that it’s windy and raining, fat raindrops blowing sideways.  Ugh. Penny is up and alert in her crate, famished and aching to be fed.  You put out food, and she bolts it down with gusto.  In the meantime you conclude that [...]

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Today I had lunch at the Diamond Grille in Akron.  It was like stepping back in time, in more ways than one. The Diamond Grille is found at 77 West Market Street.  The exterior is unpretentious — and the inside is no different.  It’s a throwback place, from the neon sign to the interior decor, [...]

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It’s been a full day of baking, but I’m just about done.  I’ve got cookies for Mom, the boys, clients, neighbors, friends — and a few left over for Kish to nibble. For a while we had quite an assembly line going, particularly as I finished the white chocolate ginger stars, which were fun to [...]

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Curse Of The Purse

The other day I was pondering why Kish’s key ring weighs approximately 30 pounds, and I concluded that purses are to blame. This began because I needed the key to Russell’s car, which is on Kish’s key ring — along with 50 other keys, tokens, and bric-a-brac.  I think the key to the diary she [...]

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Kish got two quarts of egg nog for the holidays.  She did so because, some years in the past, one of the boys made the offhand comment that they had tried egg nog and it wasn’t bad.  That innocent remark probably means we will buy at least one container of egg nog for the holidays, [...]

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Last night we were expecting guests.  We went to the door when the doorbell rang, but instead of our guests, it was a group of carolers, adults and children both, belting out a holiday song with great gusto. What a pleasant surprise!  After they finished, we thanked them and wished them happy holidays.  They looked [...]

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The other day we were removing the coffee pot from the dishwasher while it was still hot.  An unintentional, yet undue, amount of pressure, and the pot cracked — and now we are without coffee in the morning. This is probably, oh, I don’t know, the thousandth time we have broken a glass coffee pot.  [...]

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Uncle Mack’s post about reaching age 70 got me thinking about quitting smoking.  It’s one of the things he advises you do to reach that milestone.  Of course, every public health expert and doctor agrees. I smoked for years.  I started in 1975, after I graduated from high school.  When I was in college everyone [...]

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