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Joshua Flesher

Are you ready for football?

August 4, 2008

Like many in the Mahoning Valley, the month of August kick starts one of my true obsessions in life. As August progresses, the heat and humidity start to give way to pleasant days and sweat free nights of sleep. I’ve always seen August as the last deep breath of summer. It was the month in which school started back up, and the question of ‘‘Where did my summer go?’’ ran endlessly around my head while I was being dragged down the school supply aisle with my mother. It has always struck me as a futile battle, because no matter how many No. 2 pencils we bought or how many bags of pens we started out with, by October I had nothing to write with or on. I would like to blame it on the lockers I used in high school, but if it didn’t eat that rather colorful sandwich I found at the end of my senior year, it wasn’t going to eat my blue pens. Anyway, as the end of summer approaches and fall begins to creep into the Valley and across northeast Ohio, one thing takes center stage — football.

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Get out of the house!

July 14, 2008

National average gas prices have risen to record high levels for the umpteenth week in a row. Prices rose to $4.098 per gallon of regular gas, in preparation for the 4th of July weekend. With prices skyrocketing, many motorists have decided to ...

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Thanking a man I someday hope to be

June 23, 2008

It took me many years to understand and fully realize that my father wasn’t stupid. He always told me that he had what was best for me in mind when he gave me suggestions or pushed me in a direction that I was always far too eager to resist.

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