Since it was announced last summer I've kept an eye on Jake + Cooper's Dog Park. Now, it's almost open!

Jake lost a mental health battle to an overdose in August or 2021. He was 26. His parents, Larry and Jane, who become Cooper's new caretakers, decided to open a dog park, with a mental health bent, to honor their son.

This episode is a lot of things. Informative, aware, somber, morose, beautiful, hopeful. 

I am beaming from recording an Ability Center podcast with the mom of a kid I CANNOT wait to meet!

I am finally getting my Toledo roller skating party!

Let me tell you about my teenage crime spree.

Different parenting strategies have all these names now! 

I'm not a concert goer, but the Taylor Swift  tour and what it does to people and how it effects everything around it when it arrives, it unlike anything I've seen.

First, thank you to Burroughs Elementary.

Welcome back Abel, I hope you brought excellent music back with you.

Dan Finkel is by to preview the 50th Old West End Festival. Everything from the King Wamba parade, to the house tours and yard sales. 

Something happened at midnight last night that caused me to call my Dad.

Shout out to Tom Hosler. THAT is how you use Chat GPT!

However, how, or when will AI come for what you do?

911 call in Springfield Township turned into Cops + Cupcakes. People SUCK at communication.

Walleye still undefeated in the playoffs.

Bethany is headed to Chicago and then Georgia. With a 2.5 year old both times. 

TSA's $10 million dollar expansion is open in a soft way!

Bethany's perspective on our Tuesday night dinner with my Dad.

Madi needs to do more socializing with kids her age.

Slight GOTG spoilers. Call it, more of a warning. 

Alex also won an award from the Mental Health Board.

Our underwhelming evening at a popular Mexican spot.

I found a place where I can annihilate humanity.

We are going to the Jared Anderson fight!

Alex is doing the we'll break the lease if we have to thing.

Something HAS actually been on my conscience for the last 30 years. In winning a mental health advocate of the year award, I got the chance to apologize to my Dad and then thank him!

Before that, your Edison bill may be about to double, and a YOU WILL DO BETTER IN TOLEDO gleaming thru one of the busiest places on Earth.

COLD OPEN today, on our visit with Mary Bilyeu, formerly of the Blade, now with my friends at Jewish Federation.

I'm a time snob. She is 10 minutes late.

Mary is going nuts, in a good way, over a Jewish cook book she's working through. Corned beef on rye, bagels, kugel, blintzes and more!

What some spring/summer food trends to look forward to.

Mary's new job has allowed her to regrow some brain matter since she doesnt have to be wired in all the time now.

My Dad IS coming. So in my speech Monday, it's going to begin with an apology to him.

We, TOLEDO, could be the center of the sports universe in early July.

We, TOLEDO, have one of those dumb leftover laws on the books. CAR!

The Waterville Amphitheater construction may begin next week!

Don't be silly, we are going to work till we die.

As in, 'that's underrated!' Is it!? Maybe to you. But it could be, or likely is, a very small orbit.

Glass Metropark IS downtown but then again it's not. Let me discuss.

These two people absolutely cannot be allowed to procreate. Not now. Not when the Avengers are essentially broken up.

After years of visiting with my friend Robin, the Executive Director, my OTHER NAMI friend, Sonya Quinn is by to talk about the upcoming walk on May 20th, and how NAMI has handled these COVID times. GET TO THE 17:00 MARK FOR SONYA!