The Mystery Spot

It's hard to find a local where I live. A place you can walk to and become a regular. Be it a bar, which there are none. A grocery store...

He has had very little fear of the water since he was first in the pool, over two years now. Flotation devices were quickly discarded as his...

Going into this exquisite theater is one of the best things about living in Columbus. Originally built by the Lowes Theater chain in 192...

She needed a place to stay. I think she found it through Trip Advisor. I'd driven by it hundreds of times without a second thought. ...

If there are no thoughts of having sex with your dinner companion during a meal here you are dining with a blood relative. I've had...

This place opened up in the Short North sometime in 2006, I think. Used to go there quite frequently. It was a place of Live Journal meetups...

It's a building I've only been inside of five times in my 22 years in this city. Yet, it remains significant. Divorce hearing. D...

To say it has been a relief working behind the scenes instead of the front lines is an understatement. Twenty five years of direct customer ...

Jeni's is now a destination. I worry that Jeni's has expanded too much and we'll see a quality drop. Jeni's is, hands down,...

If you do not turn left a very stupid consequence can happen at the end of a 1.2 mile stretch of straight road. Two and a quarter tons movin...

The aftermath of what happens when the poles of your world shift just seeing someone on the other side of baggage claim. No, it was not supp...

After years of thinking about it, getting up the nerve, vetting live journal accounts of people involved to see if they were decent enough t...

I do not recommend closing on a house when your child was born premature and is in the NICU. We had been looking throughout the pregnancy an...

It was where my son spent the first fifty eight days of his life. No, I was not ready for his arrival. No one was. He was twelve weeks early...

Spent six and a half years here, the longest I've ever worked anywhere to date. Not going to recap it much. That all went into my live j...

Somewhere in here I got married for a second time. My soon to be mentioned that a certain Saturday in March also fell on St. Patrick's D...

In the autumn of 1999 I became a civil servant. The job was assistant manager at the gift shop in the Ohio Statehouse. The location was awes...

The job at the campus bookstore may have been full time with benefits, but the pay was not very good. To supplement my income, and to keep m...

Cooper Stadium was built in 1934 and until 2008 was the minor league ballpark of the Columbus Clippers. At the time of its closing it was th...

Around 1995 that a new sport came into our lives. It was sometime in 1990 or 1991 that we took in our first Ohio State Hockey game. They...