You may recognize my name (or photo) from my bi-weekly column in the Salem Leader. Titled "Educationally Speaking", it's a spoof on an old friend's column, "Historically Speaking". I used to write about my experiences of a small town boy that moved to the big city (Indianapolis) to further his career and education at Indiana University Indianapolis. Today, I write about almost everything that comes to me.
You can read all of my columns from the past and in the future right here:
| Date | Title | PDF |
| 2009 | ||
| 03.30.2009 | How it Cost me $65 to Replace a Lightbulb | |
| 03.16.2009 | How I Got Caught Stimulating the Economy | |
| 03.03.2009 | Can Facebook Destroy Your Child's Brain? | |
| 02.16.2009 | No One Ever Told Me Getting Old Smells Funny | |
| 02.02.2009 | My Top Ten Indiana House & Senate Bills | |
| 01.19.2009 | Another New Critter Joins the Ark | |
| 2008 | ||
| 12.29.2008 | My Day with a Toilet | |
| 12.15.2008 | Installing the Christmas Tree | |
| 12.01.2008 | My Somewhat Early-Life Crisis | |
| 11.17.2008 | My Day in a First Grade Classroom | |
| 11.03.2008 | My Ideal President | |
| 10.20.2008 | Disastrous & Destructive Economic Meltdown Death March to Main Street | |
| 10.06.2008 | Another New Car | |
| 09.22.2008 | Another Home Improvement Story | |
| 09.08.2008 | Tying a Tie | |
| 08.25.2008 | An Upside to the Upside Down Economy | |
| 08.11.2008 | Finding Sayton | |
| 07.21.2008 | If I Were Running for President | |
| 07.07.2008 | The Lamp Shade Capitol of the World | |
| 06.23.2008 | My Adventures in a Flood | |
| 06.09.2008 | Manly Mower Moments Part II | |
| 05.26.2008 | Generation Y: "Get a Clue" | |
| 05.12.2008 | Finally Something We Can All Agree On | |
| 04.28.2008 | I Really Know How to Party | |
| 04.14.2008 | Love Thy Neighbor (If You Can, I Guess) | |
| 03.31.2008 | Rah. Spring is Here. Whoopteedoo | |
| 03.17.2008 | Sex Offenders are Bad...Most of the Time * | |
| 03.03.2008 | Angry Car Gods | |
| 02.18.2008 | How I'm Patriotic | |
| 01.21.2008 | Let's Look at School Bullying | |
| 01.01.2008 | My Day with a Dog | |
| 2007 | ||
| 12.24.2007 | New Rules for Christmas | |
| 12.10.2007 | The Justin Harter Tax Plan | |
| 11.26.2007 | I Did Not Actually Say That | |
| 11.12.2007 | A Day Well Spent | |
| 10.29.2007 | I'll Be a Son of a Witch! | |
| 10.13.2007 | Manly Mower Moments | |
| 10.01.2007 | Timing is Everything | |
| 09.17.2007 | Willie Harlen Turns 25! | |
| 09.04.2007 | Maybe it's Time I Join the Campaign | |
| 08.20.2007 | Always Low. Always Wal-Mart | |
| 08.06.2007 | Immigration Shimmigration | |
| 07.23.2007 | Can We Move on From this Voting Fad? | |
| 06.25.2007 | Faith, Oil, Haircuts, Tacos and More | |
| 06.11.2007 | Justin's Sound Advice for Recent Graduates | |
| 06.09.2007 | Your Pancreas Might be the Size of a Kidney Bean | |
| 05.28.2007 | Everyone Else Makes More Money than You | |
| 05.14.2007 | Was It Something I Said? | |
| 05.01.2007 | Creating Hope One Step at a Time | |
| 04.16.2007 | Does Free Will Really Exist? | |
| 04.02.2007 | Raising the Bar | |
| 03.19.2007 | Useless Knowledge | |
| 03.05.2007 | I Guess I Want Your Vote, Too | |
| 02.19.2007 | Removing that Filtery Thing | |
| 02.05.2007 | And One and Two and ... | |
| 01.12.2007 | Very Busy People | |
| 01.08.2007 | Routine Maintenance | |
| 2006 | ||
| 12.26.2006 | Living in a Bubble | |
| 12.12.2006 | It's a Big House | |
| 11.27.2006 | Top Ten Plus One Thing to be Thankful For | |
| 11.13.2006 | Angry People | |
| 10.30.2006 | I've Lost my Nobility | |
| 10.16.2006 | Fixing Washington Count - Again | |
| 10.09.2006 | Weather Patterns | |
| 09.18.2006 | Beep Boop Blort | |
| 09.04.2006 | A Series of Bad Events...with Pizza! | |
| 08.21.2006 | Teensy Weensy Observations | |
| 08.07.2006 | Can You Believe the Stuff we Put up With? | |
| 07.24.2006 | It was a Fair Time for a Fair Fair | |
| 07.10.2006 | I'm Not Amish! | |
| 06.26.2006 | Get It Straight (Seriously) | |
| 06.12.2006 | You Didn't Ask in the Form of a Question | |
| 05.29.2006 | As Old as Dirt Pi | |
| 05.15.2006 | Read This, Stooge | |
| 04.24.2006 | Breaking Laws with Pickles on the Side | |
| 04.10.2006 | Just a Big Bowl of Stupid | |
| 03.13.2006 | Oops! I Made a Friend! | |
| 02.20.2006 | I'm King of the World! (Assuming Salem is the World) | |
| 02.06.2006 | Facts That'll Make You Wet Your Pants | |
| 01.23.2006 | Awful Questions and Camping in Classrooms | |
| 01.02.2006 | Showing Off New Logic Skills | |
| 2005 | ||
| 12.19.2005 | Finally the Final Week of Finals is Over | |
| 12.05.2005 | What it's Like Living in the Greatest City in the World | |
| 11.21.2005 | I'm So Much Nobler Now | |
| 11.07.2005 | Why I Need a Science Class | |
| 10.24.2005 | A Journey on Indy's Not So Yellow Brick Road | |
| 10.10.2005 | Technomads | |
| 09.26.2005 | ISTEP Exams | |
| 09.02.2005 | Class Begins | |
| 08.19.2005 | Introductory Column | |