Raymond and Jenny, I was reluctant to share this painfully disturbing account with you. But you will hear about it anyway. I suppose we can at least join in prayer for the countless families who were devastated by these abominable crimes. At least their stories have been recorded, are being heard and will never beContinue Reading

Proud to be a Kiwi by Raymond TeKoroako Ruka I belong to the people of Waitaha. I am Maori, an Indigenous New Zealander, who has been happily married to a Yellow Springer and living in Yellow Springs, Ohio for the last 17 years. I am writing to express my horror at the event that happenedContinue Reading

Love Letter to Terry by Abby Cobb, March 2019   I miss you, Terry. Here on Xenia Avenue we’re missing you. There’s a cold, dry wind that blows right through the middle of me when I remember that you’re gone.   Now that the sun has come back out I look for you everywhere: SittingContinue Reading

  Today is the 8th of April 2018; three years and nine months after I received the tragic news yet the wonderful honor of being asked by our friend and neighbor, Justin, to deliver the eulogy at his wife Becky’s memorial service. Recently, I sought and received Justin’s permission to post the writing on myContinue Reading

  The Economics of Happiness Conference Santa Fe, New Mexico October 12-14, 2017   THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2017 This was my first time in the southwest and looking outward from the small, window of the plane, with the telescopic advantage that no Indigenous Indian, Latino or Latina child, man or woman of those bygone agesContinue Reading