I was going to start this little piece by saying, 'Now, that camping season is nearing an end,' but I don't know when camping season is, so I'll skip ahead. Camping, it's not my thing. Firstly, I am not an "outdoors" person. I am sure most of you already know that. I mean, no one has ever ...

Alright, I've been putting this off for a while. I went to Chicago a few weeks ago. I know what you're saying, "Hey, Mike, what the chestnuts? You don't travel unless there's a funeral, so who died?" The answer, my friend, is my sister's taste in music. Ya see she got these tickets to a Pink ...

Everyone has a beat in their feet and a song thumping away on their eardrums once in a while; I'm talking music, man. First of all, I don't prescribe to just one genre of music; I've listened to a little of this, a little of that, and it all mixes together. On my custom playlist, Tina ...

Everyone seems to take summer vacations. I know people that have been all over the country this summer and a few that have been out of it, all in the name of summer vacations. My summer vacation was Tuesday. It started when I woke up at noon, but that's nothing abnormal. Me and my Ma got in ...

Opposites, man, yin and yang, cats and dogs, cookies and lettuce, they are some funny things. The counterpart or the thing that completely contradicts an item. I've known mine my entire life. My sister. See, there is a way that we are opposite already. I don't mind writing about myself or ...

I was a chubby baby, a chunky toddler, then a husky pre-adolescent. When I got into my teen years, the pretty adjectives went out the window, and the phrase "Jeez, you're fat" came flying in. Now, if you've ever seen me on the street, you know what I'm talking about here. I am not ...

I'm not a reporter. I'm not a journalist. I am an artist. I have been the cartoonist for the paper here for well over a year, but I've been playing "reporter" for only a few months. Now I can't tell you how I go about making my cartoons because that process is weird and uniquely my own. ...

I have never in my life thought about leaving Toledo. I was raised here, and I'll die here, just hopefully not today. I have friends that have traveled from coast to coast, one friend that just went to Florence, I know a woman who just visited Italy, and I know people that annually travel to ...

Emergency rooms are such weird places, am I right? I mean, you go in there when you're sick and feel like death warmed over, and they usually ask you to take a seat. I have been in my fair share of emergency rooms; I've even had my fair share of ambulance rides. All of which were eventful, ...

I don't know it to be true, but I like to think that when I was just a chunky little baby, my big sister, just a kid herself, flipped me the bird, and I returned the favor. The Unholy Middle Finger, The Bird, The One Hand Salute, all of these are just synonyms for a single finger on the ...