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By Brian Posted on July 4, 2019January 17, 2020

How to Live a Year in One Week

On Saturday morning, I sat in a veterinarian’s office and held my sweet, crazy Gracie as she took her last breath. That night, my fiancée put her arms around me … Continue reading How to Live a Year in One Week

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: fiancée, home buying, Life, loss, love, relationships
By Brian Posted on July 1, 2019January 17, 2020

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole” – Roger Caras

Or . . . “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ― Will Rogers

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Categories: Personal JournalTags: age, cancer, dog training, dogs, Gracie, grief, lessons, Life, loss, love, loved ones, pets
By Brian Posted on June 27, 2019November 1, 2019

Cincinnati Opera’s new Romeo helped avert Shakespearean-level tragedy

The broadcast and online versions of this story first appeared on WCPO Channel 9 and wcpo.com, respectively.

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Categories: Featured Work
By Brian Posted on June 27, 2019January 17, 2020

Almost Famous

“Maybe we don’t see ourselves the way we really are.”
– Almost Famous

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Categories: PhotographyTags: almost famous, black and white photography, Photography, self portrait, tbt
By Brian Posted on June 24, 2019August 9, 2019

Goose Guano Gauntlet

This is what a poopy summer run in Cincinnati, Ohio looks like.

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Categories: RunningTags: Against the Wind, Cincinnati, daily gratitude, Photography, Roebling Wednesday
By Brian Posted on June 13, 2019January 17, 2020

Cincinnati’s Elsinore Arch

“Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.” ― Nemo Nox

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Categories: HistoryTags: Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio, Elsinore Arch, Elsinore Castle, Elsinore Tower, hometown, Photography, The Queen City
By Brian Posted on June 11, 2019June 27, 2019

June 11, 2019: ‘Sunshine, sunshine, it’s fine’

“I feel it in my skin, warming up my mind,
Sometimes you gotta give in to win,
I love the days when it shines, whoa let it shine”
~ “Sunshine” by Atmosphere

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Categories: GratitudeTags: Against the Wind, birthdays, daily gratitude, Facebook, Skyline Chili, summer
By Brian Posted on June 10, 2019June 12, 2019

June 10, 2019: Return of the Grat(itude)

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” ― Carl Sandburg

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: Akron, Breweries, Canton, chasing sunsets, Dayton, Eagle Up 24 Hour Ultra, Fiance, fifty west, Jean-Robert Cavel, legos, Ohio, Thirsty Dog, tornado
By Brian Posted on June 7, 2019August 9, 2019

Summertime and the livin’ is . . .

Queasy

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Categories: UncategorizedTags: Against the Wind, blogging, boredom, busy, heat, Musings, Photography, summer, Work
By Brian Posted on May 23, 2019November 1, 2019

Taste of Findlay Market offers fresh take at Taste of Cincinnati

Feature story showing how a new area of Taste of Cincinnati that is dedicated to the work of minority and women food entrepreneurs is bringing new life and opportunity to the more than 40 year old festival.

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Categories: Featured Work
By Brian Posted on May 20, 2019June 10, 2019

May 20, 2019: Gratitude in Action

Leaping mole hills before they become mountains in a single bound

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: ADHD, Against the Wind, daily gratitude, Family, fiancée, friends, goals, Grateful, Gratitude, Gratitude list, hyperfocus, niece, old friends, summer, weather, WooBox, Work
By Brian Posted on May 15, 2019May 20, 2019

May 15, 2019: Gratitude Just Below the Surface

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking” ~ Agnes De Mille

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Categories: Gratitude, LifeTags: Against the Wind, daily gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude list, storytelling

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