GratiTuesday: Ed Vinyard
Kicking Cancer’s Butt I first met Ed Vinyard in 2014. It was my first year performing at the Hospice of Southern Illinois Red Carpet Gala. Ed’s wife, Jennifer, is the … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: Ed Vinyard
Kicking Cancer’s Butt I first met Ed Vinyard in 2014. It was my first year performing at the Hospice of Southern Illinois Red Carpet Gala. Ed’s wife, Jennifer, is the … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: Ed Vinyard
Life is grand… In 2009 the TV station I work at started doing a live chat called ‘Cover it Live’. Each morning my co-anchor Emily and I would interact with … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: Jim ‘Rhino’ Reincke
Spread the word Most of what I know about social media and content creation comes from two of my mentors; Tom Harness and Gary Vaynerchuk. Tom is my real life … Continue Reading Redistributing old content
Smile! I can’t pinpoint the time period, but I know it’s been in the last few years that I’ve become friends with Jenn Fortune. She’s a photographer here in Carterville … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: Jenn Fortune
A family affair Yes, I have decided to dedicate this week’s GratiTuesday blog post to the man and woman who gave me life, my parents Michael and Linda Hunsperger. My … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: Michael & Linda Hunsperger
Well-suited donors The 2017 #UglyChristmasSuit fundraiser is in the books. I’ve talked about it several times here on this blog and on social media. Together, Tom Harness and I raised $8,469, … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: #UglyChristmasSuit donors
New Year, new goals Each year I come up with some new goals for the new year. Usually, it involves finding my abs (which I’m still doing) or running a … Continue Reading $20,180
Looking back For the last several years as part of my year-ender posts, I share some of my favorite pictures of each year. It’s always very hard to narrow down … Continue Reading My 17 favorite pics from 2017
Mission Accomplished On Giving Tuesday, my buddy Tom Harness and I embarked on the #UglyChristmasSuit fundraiser. This is the first year I’ve participated, Tom has done it since 2014. The … Continue Reading Lessons learned from the #UglyChristmasSuit
#UglyChristmasSuit update Christmas is almost here. The hope was that the #UglyChristmasSuit fundraiser would have reached the $7,500 goal I bumped us up to. However, we’re not there quite yet. … Continue Reading We’re almost there!
Santa brought me poop Ten years ago this Christmas, I got the shittest present of all time. Pardon my language, but we’re all adults here and I’m being quite literal … Continue Reading Merry Sh!tmas
Crushing it Picture it: 1987. I was a freshman at Northwest High School. I was painfully introverted in those days. That lead to many awkward moments from my youth. Readers … Continue Reading The Christmas Crush
Professional Volunteer As parents, we usually get involved with our child’s activities. Whether it’s standing on the sidelines as a coach, becoming a scout leader or spending time helping at … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: Denise Glennon
The Ellen DeGeneres Show helps the #UglyChristmasSuit Guys The #UglyChristmasSuit Guys (myself and Tom Harness) have had a busy December. We’ve been working since Giving Tuesday, raising money for Children’s … Continue Reading Win VIP tickets to see The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Indy Wrestling’s Good Will Ambassador In the world of professional wrestling, there are good guys and bad guys. It’s kinda like real life, but in the ring, the differences between … Continue Reading GratiTuesday: Jerry Travelstead
Odd Sox I’ve been obsessed with socks for that last 30 years. I remember Christmastime 1987 I got my first pair of argyle socks. I was 14 years old and couldn’t … Continue Reading Thinking ‘odd’side the sox