What's Happening

My Personal Blog About Life's Goings On 

Thursday, March 27, 2025

It's Baseball Opening Day in Cincinnati for the Cincinnati Reds.  This Opening Day is also the 50th anniversary of the start of a two-year run of one of the greatest teams in baseball history ... the Cincinnati Reds back-to-back World Championship seasons of 1975 and 1976.  In the summer of 2010 my friend Andy Strasberg, who was marketing director for the San Diego Padres when I was Vice President Marketing for the Cincinnati Reds, called to ask for a favor.  He was putting together a hardbound book titled Baseball Fantography, a collection of snapshots from fans and 23 stories, three by Andy and the rest by friends on a variety of topics.  Andy asked if I would write on the topic of parades because of the Reds Findlay Market Opening Day Parade.  I told him I would be honored.  Click here to read what I wrote or go to the Good Stories section of this web site.  Click here.

Thursday, December 12

When I launched this web site back in April 2024, the intent was to use it to keep in touch with friends and share some Good Stories and What's Happening in my life and also to encourage them to share what is happening in their lives.  But ... I got busy.  And the web site got put on the back burner.  My plan for 2025 is resurrect those initial plans.

Meanwhile ... let me share a few words that I enclosed with a couple Christmas cards I sent.

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Merry Christmas 2024 and Happy New Year 2025

Life is good at age 80.  Enjoyable times with family, old and new friends and a new lady in my life (see photo in the Gallery section of the web site). Aging seems tolerable and manageable at the moment ... chronic lower back pain, creeping arthritis in the knees and legs, cataract surgery.  Labradoodle Millie is now 14 and aging, too.  I sleep a little later, walk when the weather allows, eat healthier, and drink a little better wine.  Foundation board work continues to add purpose.  I go to Xavier basketball games and watch West Virginia on TV.  My daughter Becky, her husband Joe and my former wife Lynne orchestrated an 80th Birthday Party for me and 50 good friends at a Reds game in June.  A 2025 project will be cleaning up this web site which is a little dated.  I enjoy sharing my news and hearing from friends -- RogerLRuhl@aol.com ... 513-378-9327.​

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Also ... go to the Good Stories tab on the web site and a favorite Christmas memory ... this one from 1970.