Thanksgiving 2025!

It is that time of year for me to say Thanks! to everyone who made 2025 special. Like 2024, a lot happened since the previous Thanksgiving and narrowing this page down to 33 photos was challenging. Use your cursor to rollover pictures or tap on your iPhone to see all the pictures. Thankful to travel overseas where Blitzen welcomed me to Birmingham, England. Rollover that picture and I'm very thankful to still play basketball. Great meeting Kenny Lofton at the Cleveland International Film Festival. The former Indians star produced a documentary film about the Cleveland Buckeyes that I appeared in. Rollover that image to see a Rick Steves presentation that I was happy to attend. Below (l-r) thankful to meet up with my great friends from college while I was in Louisville. Always thankful to spend time with my friend Rachel at a Guardians game. I was ecstatic that the Guardians won the Central Division although the playoffs didn't go as well as I hoped.

Above (l-r) rollover images to see Bosse Field, home of the Evansville (Indiana) Otters in the independent Frontier League, the 125th ballpark where I have seen professional baseball. Rollover the image to its right and see Ozzy the Bull, also welcoming me to Birmingham and named after the late Ozzy Osbourne, a Birmingham native. Rollover the image to its right and see the Chicken Rock Lighthouse in the Irish Sea. To the left, thankful to meet friendly folks on my trips. To the left, a young lady at Dublin's Temple Bar was enamored with my Cleveland Guardians hat. Rollover that image to see friends I made at the Birmingham Christmas Market. Below left, thankful to meet the Evansville Otterbelles at the Evansville Otters game. Rollover to see March Madness first round games here. Below middle, thankful to take the world famous Roaming Hooters T Shirts to be signed by fabulous Hooters servers all over the world. Here are Leila and Annie at the Liverpool, England Hooters and Annabella at the Mason, Ohio Hooters. Thankful to visit Belfast, Northern Ireland and see a mural of shipyard workers. Rollover that photo to see picturesque Bristol, England.

Thankful to spend time with my great friend, Courtney. (above) Rollover that image to see me at the Beatles Experience in Liverpool. Above left, thankful for the enthusiastic welcome to Dublin on my Christmas trip. Thankful to see the city of Belfast honoring hard working women with statues of women of different occupations. To the left, thankful to spend time with my cool friend, Taylor. Rollover that image and see me presenting at the Society for American Baseball Research Malloy Conference where I had the privilege to talk about the 1945 Negro League World Champion Cleveland Buckeyes. Thankful to be visited by the Ballpark Hunter himself, Marc Viquez. Also thankful for all the laundromats on my trips. Here is one in Liverpool under the watchful eye of the God of the sea himself, Neptune.

     Above, great meeting up with 
Keith Wood, Alex Painter and Johnny 
Haynes at the SABR conference.
Rollover that image and I'm thankful
I got to see a purple cow at Cadbury
headquarters outside Birmingham,  
England. 
     Above right, thankful to visit 
my cousin Susie and explore a local 
Peanuts museum with her.
     Below that picture is a statue
of Brian Epstein in Liverpool.  He
is best known for managing the Beatles
and other Liverpool bands. Rollover
that image to see the cool new 
Superman statue here in Cleveland
honoring his creators who were from
Cleveland.
     Below, always thankful I'm still 
practicing law and appearing at courts
throughout Northeast Ohio like the
Lorain County Courthouse in Elyria.
Rollover that image and I'm thankful
when I go to courts to find great
little breakfast spots like Griddles
in Medina.