Living Out Loud

Busted by Ghosts?

Sometimes I see ghosts.

I work at the main library downtown, sorting and retrieving books in the stacks, those windowed galleries in between the 2nd and 3rd floors. If you look up from the atrium on the ground floor, sometimes you’ll see me walking by up there.

Me, Grumpiness, Richard Ford and the Dixie Chicks

This past Friday afternoon, I caught up with Pulitzer price winning novelist Richard Ford by phone in his hotel room in Denver, Colorado. He’s just started his book tour to promote his new novel “The Lay of the Land” which was released last week.

Your Letters

Almost

Comfortable in my Own Skin

Go ahead, look at me. It’s not like it’s anything new. I know I’m pretty, I know I have the look. I’m comfortable in my own skin.

Here’s Some New Rules

I try to keep this blog local to Cincinnati, but Cincinnati belongs in the real world - right?

Raped

My sister got raped this past weekend. She lives in the hood too just like me.

“Little Man”

As I said in a post a few weeks ago, I’m back where I started, working some hours at Elgin Office Equipment downtown doing a little bit of everything, just like over 30 years ago.

Super Amps - and Then There’s Me

Photo credit for last picture - Sara Beiting

You may not be familiar with these people, but I am.

Smokers

I had a blind date last night – a set up from a girlfriend. Don’t ask me why I agreed to it, but I did.