Columns
David Trinko: Why the newspaper keeps reporting numbers
The old adage says numbers never lie.According to plenty of internet comments over the past two years, they lied to you nearly daily.If you’re a...
John Grindrod: Some thoughts on clutter, both at work and at home
While working as a quality inspector for Mid-American Cleaning Contractors, I make my way through a wide swath of workspaces, both workers’ cubi...
Today, we are all Ukrainian
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Wilmington developing sister-city relationships with three communities in Ukraine. As I wrote that column, Russian forc...
Appreciating the nice guys
One of the things I’ve always liked about watching football is what a team sport it is.For me, the Super Bowl was always the greatest showcase o...
Hail to those special groundhogs
Each year, I have to chuckle as Feb. 2 approaches, for it’s on that day that a rodent perceived as a pest by most for the rest of the 364 days o...
Building memories and a treehouse
At the far end of Maple Street in Germantown was a narrow strip of woods between two cornfields. That skinny bit of woods led down to Twin Creek about...
Checking out self check-out
Here is a conversation starter more controversial than “Who did you vote for?” More timely than “What happened to Ohio State?”...
Joey Franchise is changing my mind
Except for a time from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, I have never been much of a Cincinnati Bengals fan. I have always rooted for them to some degr...
Glimpses of America, 1957
A couple of years ago, one of my sweet and gentle readers, Mary Crider, gave me a large stack of my favorite childhood magazine, Sports Illustrated, m...
A former student scores again
Until the death of the president of Training, Solutions, Inc. in 2020 and the closing of the company, for decades I frequently taught courses in creat...
