Arthur Krummel will rock on forever in our hearts

Arthur Krummel will rock on forever in our hearts

Charlene Nevada Krummel and Arthur Krummel   NOTE: On June 8, 2024, I delivered this hybrid eulogy/commentary more fit for roast than Arthur Krummel’s memorial service. Arthur would have wanted to hear the sound of laughter as he was remembered.  ...
Ed Meyer: Consummate Colleague, Best of Friends

Ed Meyer: Consummate Colleague, Best of Friends

Ed Meyer (Photo from Facebook screen shot) For months that turned into years, when Ed Meyer’s name popped up during endless conversations with Don Plusquellic for a book I wrote about the former Akron mayor—The Indomitable Don Plusquellic—the result never...
Perfect Literary Pathologist Resurrects John Brown

Perfect Literary Pathologist Resurrects John Brown

For literally years (2007-2016), Joyce Dyer burrowed into John Brown’s mind and physically retraced the righteous but bloody trail he had left across troubled America. She went at the heart of John Brown, the causeof this abolitionist who spent much of his life in...
Football Integrity? ‘Our Boys’ Has It in Spades

Football Integrity? ‘Our Boys’ Has It in Spades

Even as others heap praise on this football season because of two closely contested College Football Playoff (CFP) semifinals that, for a second remarkable year, included a team not among the usual suspects, I avert my eyes and hold my nose. From my wizened...

The Perfect Deshaun Watson Suspension Gift

According to advertising email, this “Full Body Massage Chair” is for sale at a most appropriately named big-box store. Browns fans might want one for their unavailable quarterback as he sits out 11 games, as mandated by the NFL. Good women who provide...