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Ria Delight Megnin (yes, that's her real middle name!) loves exploring the edges where science and spirituality connect -- or clash. After 10 years working at newspapers in Massachusetts and California, she made the leap to freelance writing and editing. She enjoys helping the people, nonprofits and businesses of Dayton and beyond share their stories in powerful ways.
Plenty of Dayton-area folks couldn’t tell you where tiny Alpha, Ohio is. It includes about six blocks of Beavercreek between 35 and Dayton-Xenia Road, and has a population of less than 200 people. But a financial investing firm based there for 40 years has the top-performing Small-Cap Fund in the nation, and its fund family… (continue…)
Eighty years ago, the Dayton Daily News gave the following report as Daytonians weathering the Great Depression made plans to celebrate the New Year holiday. The “clarion blasts” and “owl cars” have passed along with the heyday of hotel parties and public dances, but it’s likely their great-grandchildren will also see “many whistles made wet… (continue…)
On Tuesday evening, I watched the 1964 TV show “Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer” for the first time since I was 9 or 10 years old. What a time machine! For a few precious moments I was a foot shorter, my hair in tangles, wearing my scratchy pink pajamas, watching the tiny television in our basement… (continue…)
“Hark how the bells – ” “How about this note? ‘Haaaaark…’” “Hark how the – “ “Wait, that was too high for you last time, right? Let’s, um, ‘HAAARK how the BELLS…’” “Hark how the bells, sweet silver – “ “OK, good, let’s go. Everybody? One, and a two, and a — ” We slaughtered… (continue…)
If you’re reading this, you’ve most likely heard of a little thing called First Fridays. These art walks (and in some cities, African-American business networking or conservative political events) happen in urban areas all over the United States on the first Friday of each month. Their goal? Connect people with their communities. But here in… (continue…)
It’s pretty much universal. No matter who I talk to – lifelong D8N residents, far-flung friends and family, and anybody living or working here now – when I tell them I moved to Dayton from California, they ask: “Why??” It’s complicated. “I followed a boy,” I’ll say. I needed out of my evening-shift job… (continue…)
Matt Kish presents “Moby-Dick In Pictures: One Drawing For Every Page” The legendary 19th-century novel Moby-Dick, or The Whale, is a story of obsession. No one, perhaps, understands that obsession quite so well as a Dayton librarian who spent 543 days creating an illustration for each of Moby-Dick’s pages – and now has the published… (continue…)
Mayan elder’s cross-country pilgrimage involved visit to Serpent Mound Late on the afternoon of Oct. 29, Mayan elder Hunbatz Men carefully climbed the first steps of a steel observation tower overlooking the ancient Serpent Mound in southeastern Ohio. The site was Men’s second stop on a cross-country sacred journey this fall, leading from Manhattan on… (continue…)
