by Kevin Burton Sometime in the 90s when I worked at a photo lab, a co-worker asked me a question;. “If you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?” My answerer was something about spreading the gospel. “What’s stopping you?” He asked. His point was nothing …
Category Archives: Ohio
Double Takes This Weekend In Twinsburg
by Kevin Burton You know, if you’ve seen one twin, you’ve seen the other. And you can see plenty this weekend, if you’re in the Cleveland area, at the 51st Annual Twins Days Festival. Twinsburg, Ohio is about 26 miles south of Cleveland and north of Akron. The town of Millsville was …
Dave Mason And A Place That’s Far Away
by Kevin Burton There was just one song that brought Dave Mason into my top-40-based musical awareness in the 70s, but that was enough to keep him there. Mason died April 19, and tributes began to pour in from people who knew him as I didn’t, as a co-founder of the British rock …
Finding Contentment In The Little Dance
by Kevin Burton Perhaps you noticed that all the teams in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA basketball tournament this year were from the Big Four conferences. That and Kansas losing in the second round has dialed my enthusiasm down very close to zero. A pox on all 16 of their houses …
Miami Of Ohio Strikes A Blow For Underdogs
by Kevin Burton My underdog heart beat just a little bit faster Wednesday, thanks to Miami of Ohio winning a play-in game. I would love the RedHawks to have a nice long run in March Madness, beginning with their 3:25 p.m. matchup with Tennessee today, but I’m happy with what they have done …
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The Last Jump Shot Of A Confirmed Gym Rat
by Kevin Burton My most recent place of employment was a three-story church, which had, on the third floor, a gymnasium. I almost never went up there because my work was on the other two floors. But the whole time I worked there, there was a basketball on the floor, in the office, …
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Can True Love Be Found At A Flea Market?
by Kevin Burton The Burtons love a good farmer’s market. And the local weather has been conducive to attending the outdoor version. So this could happen pretty soon. Sign us up! A farmer’s market of course, is the much yummier first cousin of a garage sale. But what of a flea …
Some Charming Words For Nasty People
by Kevin Burton My assigned task was to write past-due notices to customers. Dry enough, but I had some fun with it. I was working as an office assistant at a photo lab in Columbus, Ohio. We were in the not-so-busy season, taking care of things that didn’t get done during the busy …
Students Take Action To Save Bus Drivers
by Andy Corbley Good News Network When an Ohio school bus driver began to suffer a medical event, a brother and sister took action that may have saved her life. Footage taken from a surveillance camera inside the bus shows 8-year-old Catrina sitting in the seat nearest the driver, who began to have …
Investigation Shows Dollar Store Cheating
by Barry Yeoman and Jocelyn C Zuckerman The Guardian On a cloudy winter day, a state government inspector named Ryan Coffield walked into a Family Dollar store in Windsor, North Carolina, carrying a scanner gun and a laptop. Inside the store, which sits along a three-lane road in a county of peanut growers …
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