This actually works pretty well as beat poetry.

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Rambunctious Romaine, bounteous butterhead.

Searing serranos.

Bunches and bunches of basil.

A gaggle of green beans.

And oh, those tomatoes… gotta let them ripen… and wait, just a little bit longer…

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Cuyahoga county’s first Sonic.

On Snow Road in Parma right in the middle of the Midtown strip mall parking lot. Across the street from an Eat ‘n Park and a Burger King. A few feet down from a Dunkin Donuts and a McDonalds.
I think that’s what’s known as variety.

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Time for another installment of the vacation edition of Sign of the Times, meaning another trip to an exotic locale close to home. This time, it’s ol’  Toledo.

I spent a day in Toledo last week with two goals in mind; one, to visit the Fallen Timbers battlefield site south of Toledo, and to attend the [...]

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Happy 213th birthday to our fair city.

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Earlier this week, I saw the movie “Food, Inc.” It’s a documentary about the food industry in this country and how it has all gone terribly wrong for us, the customers, and fantastically well for the handful of large corporations that essentially supply what we eat.

Truth be told, if you’ve followed the growing food awareness [...]

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So there I am, pouring a glass of water in the kitchen when I hear a knock at the front screen door. It’s two 20-something kids dressed in shirts and ties, holding clipboards, and trying to work up big salesguy smiles for their 20-hour a week summer sales jobs.
“How are you today, sir?” (Sir. I [...]

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Hard to believe it’s been a year of blogging already. For everyone who’s stopped by in the past year to browse or leave a comment, a hearty THANK YOU!
Stay tuned. More is on the way…

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One of the worst buzzwords to emerge during the summer of 2008 was the dreadful “staycation.” For me, there was nothing “stay” about my “cation” last summer, considering that I logged well over 30,000 air miles jetting across the globe from Australia to Asia to Europe and back again to the U.S. of A.
This year, [...]

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Two weeks ago, the day after the Cleveland Museum of Art’s hugely successful Summer Solstice Party, I gushed about it here.
Well, the gushing continues. In an op-ed in today’s PD, Charles Michener waxes about the party and how it was significantly different from the other events in University Circle as well as other happenings in [...]

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