Remember those days when you could still run, or at least jog… and you would pick a land marker and “sprint” to it?/ Well, that is where we are at, as we sprint into the final five days of  this session’s election draws to a close. I’ve been very busy running from one event to another, [...]

Greetings. Sorry for the break in the posts, but had to break down and invest in a new computer.  This week end has been pretty good…Penn State had a great win this week leading into their home stretch, the World series has shown some great baseball, especially for those of you who like home runs, [...]

Anyone remember that song??  Who wrote it?? I always liked that song..so easy to sing along with.  Seems like Mondays are still the one day people dread the most!  Hope everyone had a great weekend.  I spent a good part of it at The Haines Dutch Fall festival.  Always a great time with good food [...]

Have had a very busy and fun week attending many  local functions in the district. I spoke to a great group of students at Penn State again this week. They asked a lot of good questions and have  great insight. Also road in this years State College Alumni parade wed, with other SCAHS grads, Don Asendorf [...]

Sometimes in todays society it would be easy to be so busy that we can miss out in some of the more  simpler, relaxing and often most enjoyable events going on around us,  In the past few days I was honored  to have participated in an Eagle Scout ceremony for two brothers, crossing the finish line [...]

This evening I was honored to speak between games at the Bellefonte/Bald Eagle Soccer game, honoring C-Company-2 of the 112th Bellefonte National Gaurd unit. These brave young men and women will be deployed to Irag shortly.  How appropriate that we honor both the soldiers and their families,  on this 7th anniversary of 9/11, as they too will all [...]

September 04, 2008
Today has been a great day! It started with my 4 year olds daily breakfast order of ” make me a dippy egg daddy, and don’t make it hard! Starts my day off with a laugh! I was invited to attend a ribbon cutting for Christ Community Church- what a great event! I [...]

Probably wondering what 120 ears means?  Well, as an in-town want-to-be farmer, I just picked my 120th ear of corn in my family garden.  I know you think this is silly, but this is a great opportunity to share the wonders of mother nature with my children. I always found it amazing and want to [...]

My friends at Centre Daily Times have been asking state legislators to dive in – to launch a blog and join the conversation. Well, with this first post friends, I’ve leaped. I’m a now a blogging legislator.
The online community is changing the public debate in so many ways. Bloggers are scooping reporters. Capitol insiders are [...]