Daily Connector | Things that keep me focused | Phil Hart
When I was a boy, my brother and I spent many summer mornings hoeing in my grandfather’s half acre garden. We’d each get paid a quarter and split a bottle of Pepsi. Those mornings began my relationship with tomatoes. Fresh sliced tomatoes were served almost every meal they were in…
Daily Connector | Step by step | Mim Halterman
My motto, to keep from becoming overwhelmed has been “step by step”. When I look back, I see the steps taken vs all the steps yet to take. I bought a house and moved in June. Instead of taking my vacation to the beach, my niece revoked the invitation –…
Daily Connector | A Box of stuff | Tim McCarthy
It is just a box full of stuff, right? Maybe, maybe not. I often worry that I am missing something. Not that I have misplaced something, but that I am not seeing or understanding something important. As a young adult I worried about the biblical references of following false prophets….
Daily Connector | Picture this | Tom Blosser
My Dad, who is 95, went into an assisted living/retirement facility in March, the same week the governor shutdown all visitation in and out of assisted living facilities. It was a prudent and necessary action, but it’s been very hard on Dad and our family as a whole. The first…
Daily Connector | Discovering my Polish Roots: The Pictures | Larry Less
Picking up with the discovery that I had a Great Uncle named John Lesh and a picture from Dresden, Ohio, I searched Census records and found that John and his wife, Tillie, had lived in Lorain, Ohio their entire lives. My Mom’s youngest sister, Rosemary, who was about 10 at…