samwise the brave

13 hours and 11 minutes…and we’re here.  of course the cost of the gas alone is enough to make you have to sit down even with a higher efficiency vehicle…still spent about $160.  it is 728 miles by way of westerville to pick up our oldest.  we’ll be up early to watch the motivational run [...]

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in just a bit this morning we’ll be headed south to parris island to see our son Jed graduate as a US Marine assigned to 1st Bn Alpha as part of 1st Bn Alpha. its been 86 days since he stepped off on this amazing adventure.  the letters home have been more than an encouragement.  [...]

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after a long tough wednesday melinda and i joined some of her colleagues for late afternoon tour of the stan hywet hall in akron. here’s a clip from their website…

in 1898, F.A. Seiberling founded The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, naming it after Charles Goodyear, the inventor of the vulcanization process for rubber. It [...]

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last week was kinda of crazy. i took the late nite flight back from the purpose driven stealth summit. got into columbus around 1:00 am friday morning. got some sleep but was up early to do an interview about our exploits @ the summit with mark zimmerman at wcrf in cleveland. [...]

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wanted to share some of the fun i had last week while hanging with tony steward in the “ipod cast” green room. this clip (go here to watch) is as much fun to watch now as it was to see first hand. tony morgan started talking with bobby gruewald and carlos whittaker then miles [...]

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