Don't Judge By First Appearances
A Stodghill Says So blog: A few posts on this board today led me to write this blog. I've never dedicated a blog before but this one is for an excellent composer of country music, E. Don Harpe. The...
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A Stodghill Says So blog: June 25. Just another summer day to most people. For those of us still living, and the ranks have dwindled considerably, it is a date that revives memories of another June 25...
View ArticleA Most Unusual Man
Evan Owens was a funny man with a weird sense of humor, an irreverent outlook and an uncommon talent for painting word pictures. For several years his desk and mine were side by side in the newsroom...
View ArticleForbidden is a Dirty Word
A Stodghill Says So blog: This is the time of year when Americans are supposed to think about independence and freedom. A few may take time out from barbecuing and watching fireworks to actually do so....
View ArticleFourth of July Fireworks
A Stodghill Says So blog: Hours before first light on July Fourth it began, a massive artillery barrage that lit up the sky with brilliant flashes of gold and silver. Ships in the nearby English...
View ArticleOld enough to die, too young to drink
A Stodghill Says So blog:[ One of the local police departments proudly announced last week that its sturdy men in blue had broken up a ring of lawbreakers and hauled the culprits off to the hoosegow....
View ArticleMy Driver's License Photo
A Stodghill Says So blog: The frightening thing about my new driver's license picture is that Jackie claims I look better than I did on the past two. The lady at the Ohio BMV told me to smile so I did...
View ArticleIt isn't the 1930s - Part 1
A Stodghill Says So blog: I was reading something about the early years of the Great Depression and how all the people were lazy and looking for a handout. Funny how quickly everyone got that way, but...
View ArticleWhy won't you look at my 7th Grade picture?
A Stodghill Says So blog: It's All-American Soap Box Derby time again in Akron so the downtown streets are crowded with kids and parents from all over the nation and a few foreign countries. Except for...
View ArticleThe Almighty Dollar
A Stodghill Says So blog: It's always about the money, isn't it? Go to college and you'll make X number of dollars more than someone with only a high school diploma. There was another one of those...
View ArticleThe News of the Day
A Stodghill Says So blog: GET THOSE WICKED GAMBLERS It is reassuring to know the local upholders of the law are right on the job and with the help of the Feds took down another gambling operation. They...
View ArticleDoctor's Orders
A Stodghill Says So blog: This was the morning for my once a month shot of energy and vitality juice so the doc and I had our usual exchange of ideas. He said, "Yesterday was nice and sunny so did you...
View ArticleAlways Please a Woman
A Stodghill Says So blog: Jackie said I should write about it because it was the only story I told her in more than 20 years that she hadn't heard before. It wasn't much of a story but it never is a...
View ArticleYou Just never Know
A Stodghill Says So blog: On an October evening in 1964 I drove to Barberton, the city adjoining Akron's south side, to watch the Cuyahoga Falls High School Tigers play the Barberton Magics. The Tigers...
View ArticleHe missed the lesson on giving up
A Stodghill Says So blog: A gangly, uncoordinated fellow played four years of high school football a few decades back. Freshman team, junior varsity, two seasons on the varsity squad. Not once in all...
View ArticleA Cruel and Vicious Attack
A Stodghill Says So blog: In one of his more lucid moments my brother-in-law Mike Taylor, whose brain was fried by too many years spent under the Florida sun, sent me the cruel and uncalled-for photo...
View ArticleI didn't need another reason not to buy a GM car
A Stodghill Says So blog: I've been stung three times by General Motors and crossed the company off my list long ago. Hard as it is for me to believe, they have come up with yet another reason to...
View ArticleThe Strange Nature of Americans
A Stodghill Says So blog: Being the easy-going, even-tempered guy that I am I took it like a man and didn't swear much at all after being struck down by a virus. That changed completely when my...
View ArticleHave I mentioned . . .
A Stodghill Says So blog: "Far be it from me to beat my own drum." I never should have said that aloud because Jackie overheard. "Yeah, right. Except at every opportunity that arises." "That's not...
View ArticlePrivacy? Forget it
A Stodghill Says So blog: Remember privacy? Maybe you have a shred of it left so you don't have to remember. Enjoy the feeling because it's about to go the way of the dodo bird. The latest gadget that...
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