The Mystery Spot

My third Great-Grandfather, Joseph Plunkett served in the army with the Massachusetts Volunteers during The Civil War. His arm was either in...

The original Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was constructed in Columbus in 1835 on Columbus’ near east side. It burned down in 1868 and the rebuild ...

A new business opened on the west side this week. Amy's Donuts is a chain based out of Colorado and California. They make dozens of type...

On Tuesday, those who vote in Columbus will be voting in primaries for Mayor and City Council. I will not be voting. Mainly because in orde...

At this point in the home buying process, we're only looking at open houses. It's going to be months before we're serious in mak...

Stopped by the library to pick up my reserve of the new Murakami book, one chapter in and all is well. While there, one of the clerks, who w...

After too many nights of interrupted sleep caused by my son not sleeping through the night we've decided to try something new. When he w...

One of the major voices of my life died this week. Ralph Kiner was one of the trio, which included Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy, who announ...

After seeing a lot of rumor and speculation on message boards about his death, I sent an email to a record label contact and had the horribl...

The last few weeks, months even, have been a struggle. You can tell my the decreased number of posts here. Schedules have changed, then chan...

My use of my turntable comes and goes with the warm weather and my motivation. The Back Room of the house is where I keep the stereo now day...

I was standing in the middle of a casino on the west side of Columbus. Around me there was screaming from the blackjack tables. From of jo...

To start the year, three days in, a poem. Not sure if I'm going to put more of my work out here this year. That said, where else is my w...

In the ten years since we've lived on the west side, the house next door has had a slew of tenants. Some of them leave after a month or ...

Breathing out after dealing with a surprise billing by my son's day camp. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the bill was f...

Why do the people next door hate trees? Why won't my kid poop in the toilet? What the hell is wrong with my scanner? It will not sca...

Oh to live on the west side, where your neighbor's buddy brings over his car which has a stereo that rattles the upstairs furniture aro...

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...

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...