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Vol 10, Issue 242 Jul 2-Jul 8, 2008
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Living Out Loud Back in the Day by Katie Laur 07-02-08


Living Out Loud A Good Sunday by Larry Gross 06-25-08


Living Out Loud The Mother Rose by C.A. MacConnell 06-18-08


Living Out Loud Thanks Pops by Danny Cross 06-11-08


Living Out Loud Her Anonymous Life by Larry Gross 06-04-08


Living Out Loud The Listening Gift by C.A. MacConnell 05-28-08


Living Out Loud The Problem I Have With Henry by Larry Gross 05-21-08


Living Out Loud A Hot Potato by Larry Gross 05-14-08


Living Out Loud Wolfe and the Chicken Pot Pies by Katie Laur 05-07-08


Living Out Loud Admit It: A Lousy Feminist by Stephanie Dunlap 04-30-08


Living Out Loud She Was Somebody by Larry Gross 04-23-08


Living Out Loud Spreading the Chili Gospel by Sara Bedinghaus 04-16-08


Living Out Loud Spin the Bottle by C.A. MacConnell 04-09-08


Living Out Loud The Pleasure of Her Company by Larry Gross 04-02-08


Living Out Loud Cut Her Off by Larry Gross 03-26-08


Living Out Loud I Found God in a Doughnut by C.A. MacConnell 03-19-08


Living Out Loud Kids Having Kids by Larry Gross 03-12-08


Living Out Loud Heavy Petting by Stephanie Dunlap 03-05-08


Living Out Loud The Metro Bus Ruined Me by Danny Cross 02-27-08


Living Out Loud Bear by Larry Gross 02-20-08


Living Out Loud: Sit or Spin III Troublemaking at the laundromat by C.A. MacConnell 02-13-08


Living Out Loud: Dancing on the Ceiling Young Jeremy by Katie Laur 02-06-08


Living Out Loud: Darlene showed me the Way The black and white of it. by Larry Gross 01-30-08


Caffeine Dream My every day drug of Choice by C.A. MacConnell 01-23-08


Shhhhh! The Public Library by Larry Gross 01-16-08


Living Out Loud: Crossing the Rhine A New Look for OTR by Katie Laur 01-09-08


Living Out Loud: Smile I know you can do it by Larry Gross 01-02-08


Living Out Loud: Paybacks Are Hell The old girlfriend encounter by Larry Gross 12-19-07


Living Out Loud: Drug Choices The same kind of freedom by Larry Gross 12-12-07


Living Out Loud: O Natalee, Where Art Thou? Time to get out of Aruba by Larry Gross 12-05-07


Living Out Loud: Trashing the Unifrom Leaving behind the white cul-de-sac by C.A. MacConnell 11-28-07


Living Out Loud: Protection Father and son by Lee Butler 11-20-07


Thinking of Patti Deutsch An early morning downtown by Larry Gross 11-14-07


Living Out Loud: Cigars, Zippos, Tonic Water and the Mute A walk to the Garfield Market by Larry Gross 11-07-07


Living Out Loud: A Place among Friends Allen's Barbershop by Lee Butler 10-31-07


Living Out Loud: Love Will Keep Us Together The father and his son by Larry Gross 10-24-07


Living Out Loud: 200, 5 Years and Going on 10 Something happens called life by Larry Gross 10-17-07


Living Out Loud: That Cincinnati Vibe When outsiders come to visit by Larry Gross 10-10-07


Hiding Behind the Mask Sub: Being Human by Larry Gross 09-26-07


Living Out Loud: Fall of the Toy Soldiers Understanding our troops by Lee Butler 09-19-07


Living Out Loud: He Thinks I'm Doing Coke First Date moments by C.A. MacConnell 09-12-07


Living Out Loud: Jail Bait Dying in Jail Alley by Lee Butler 09-05-07


Living Out Loud: Cubicles and Co-Workers Welcome to my white collar zoo by Lee Butler 08-29-07


Living Out Loud: Pretty in Pink Crazy eyes by Larry Gross 08-22-07


Living Out Loud: The Privileged Athlete They are not better people by Lee Butler 08-15-07


Living Out Loud: The Thunder Rolls A writer's life by Larry Gross 08-08-07


Living Out Loud: Sunday Morning Coming Down Sobbing into a cell phone by Larry Gross 08-01-07


Living Out Loud: Todd's From E-Town The Breakfast by Larry Gros 07-25-07


Living Out Loud: Laundry, Groceries and $20 Hookers Mornings at the Alpine by Larry Gross 07-18-07


Living Out Loud: I Don't Need an Exorcism Dealing with bipolar stigma by C.A. MacConnell 07-11-07


Living Out Loud: Going Cold Turkey A weekend without my computer by Larry Gross 07-04-07


Living Out Loud: Sit or Spin II Love and the Laundromat by C.A. MacConnell 06-27-07


Living Out Loud: Scattered Rambling thoughts from a guy making a change by Larry Gross 06-20-07


Living Out Loud: Have You Been Saved? Accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior by Larry Gross 06-13-07


Living Out Loud: Stuff My History in a Drawer by Larry Gross 06-06-07


Living Out Loud: Seven Months Questions for Cincinnati by Jessica Kalmar 05-30-07


Living Out Loud: Hard Times A long way home by Marilyn K. Schirmer 05-23-07


Living Out Loud: All In the Name of Friendship Peeing in a cup by Larry Gross 05-16-07


Living Out Loud: Come June Putting my living where my mouth is by Larry Gross 05-09-07


Living Out Loud: A Belated "You're Welcome" The Birthday Gift by Brian Ciesko 05-02-07


Living Out Loud: The Blacksburg I Know A presence of peace by C.A. MacConnell 04-25-07


Living Out Loud: We Have a Situation Here Doug and the looker by Larry Gross 04-18-07


Living Out Loud: A Lion in Winter The talk with a stranger by Larry Gross 04-11-07


Living Out Loud: A Simple Tale Questions by Steven Paul Lansky 04-04-07


What's Best About Cincinnati? Taking it to the streets - sort of by Larry Gross 03-28-07


Living Out Loud: Sleepwalking Knives for cotton swabs and Parmesan cheese for coffee by C.A. MacConnell 03-14-07


Living Out Loud: "Hello, Plastic or Plastic?" Standing in line at Keller's by Larry Gross 03-07-07


Living Out Loud: History and Friendships Sub: Learning from Sammy by Larry Gross 02-28-07


Living Out Loud: Journal -- February 13, 2007 Just another Tuesday by Larry Gross 02-21-07


Living Out Loud: Sex, AIDS and Happiness Eli by Heather Siladi 02-14-07


Living Out Loud: Me? A Blogger? And no, I'm not the LOL Girl by Larry Gross 02-07-07


Living Out Loud: Anxiety Attack Becoming the person I set myself up to be by Loucresha Jones 01-31-07


Living Out Loud: The Out-of-Towner Sunday downtown by Larry Gross 01-24-07


Living Out Loud: The Other Side Abandoned by God by Brian Ciesko 01-17-07


Living Out Loud: Dying Alone Mr. Gillis and his son by Larry Gross 01-10-07


Living Out Loud: Manners for an Appetizer "Smile, William" by William Johnson 01-03-07


Living Out Loud: Thank you, Miss Jake We need more people like you by Larry Gross 12-27-06


Living Out Loud: His Bic Pen & the Future More conversation with the award-winning novelist Richard Ford by Larry Gross 12-20-06


Living Out Loud: Dirty Turkey Thanksgiving in Jaytown by C.A. MacConnell 12-13-06


Living Out Loud: Tommy James This time next week by Larry Gross 12-06-06


Living Out Loud: My Name is Karen Who I am by Karen @ the Hood 11-29-06


Living Out Loud: 810 Main Street Getting to know Mr. Coy by Larry Gross 11-21-06


Living Out Loud: Two Girls and a Guy Another bus story by Larry Gross 11-15-06


Living Out Loud: Snappers and Painters Me and Conner by C.A. MacConnell 11-08-06


Living Out Loud: Suffering Me and Luke by Marilyn K. Schirmer 11-01-06


Living Out Loud: Tiny Death Rows Breakfast with Delbert Lee Tibbs by C.A. MacConnell 10-25-06


Living Out Loud: Write! Writers who don't want to by Larry Gross 10-18-06


Living Out Loud: Thoughts from a Defensive Smoker Sub: Enjoying it while it lasts by Larry Gross 10-11-06


Living Out Loud: William, Your Life is Calling Seeing is believing by William Johnson 10-04-06


Living Out Loud: Lost in Over-the-Rhine Finding the good with the bad by Larry Gross 09-27-06


Living Out Loud: Looking at the Past The old friend by Larry Gross 09-20-06


Living Out Loud: The Car Family It's beyond transportation by C.A. MacConnell 09-13-06


Living Out Loud: Where Everybody Knows Your Name Clifton's Gaslight District by Larry Gross 09-06-06


Living Out Loud: Into His Eyes The firefighter by Peter Deane 08-30-06


Living Out Loud: Reefer Madness Examining a silly law by Larry Gross 08-23-06


Living Out Loud: New Rules Suggestions to make me less cranky by Larry Gross 08-16-06


Living Out Loud: Trashin' the 'Nati by Larry Gross 08-09-06


Living Out Loud: Peace Work Help Me Get Arrested by Gregory Flannery 08-02-06


Living Out Loud: Passing Gas Men and public restrooms by Larry Gross 07-26-06


Living Out Loud: Life in a Shoebox My new daughter by Peter Deane 07-19-06


All Dogs Go to Heaven Sunday morning on Dixie Highway by Larry Gross 07-12-06


Living Out Loud: Paper or Plastic? Register 1 by Larry Gross 07-05-06


Living Out Loud: I've Been Busy Watching Television by Larry Gross 06-28-06


Living Out Loud: That Caring Thing Children at play by Marilyn K. Schirmer 06-21-06


Not Ready to Make Nice Local country radio & The Dixie Chicks by Larry Gross 06-14-06


Living Out Loud: Funny to Me Immaturity can last a lifetime by Brian Ciesko 06-07-06


Living Out Loud: Jennifer Too Capital Hill Girl by Larry Gross 05-31-06


Living Out Loud: Come Down Broken minds, broken windows by C.A. MacConnell 05-24-06


Living Out Loud: Attracting Weirdness It follows me wherever I go by Larry Gross 05-17-06


Mike and the Price of Gas A hard pill to swallow by Larry Gross 05-10-06


Living Out Loud: Driving Mr. Rodney He still hasn't called by Peter Deane 05-03-06


Living Out Loud: Maybe Five Years Ago Defining Ellen by Larry Gross 04-26-06


Living Out Loud: Where Our Heart Is Prisoner of fate by Loucresha Jones 04-19-06


Living Out Loud: Tolerance Sometimes it takes awhile by Larry Gross 04-12-06


Living Out Loud: Smoking Is Only Allowed in the Back The Citizen and his kids go to Sitwell's by Steven Paul Lansky 04-05-06


Living Out Loud: Our Christian President Thoughts on G.W.B. by Larry Gross 03-29-06


Living Out Loud: A Possible Past Choices by Brian Ciesko 03-22-06


Living Out Loud: A Conversation with an Honest Man The Larry Gross Interview by D.B. Wells 03-15-06


The Taxi Driver Riding with Marvin by Larry Gross 03-08-06


Living Out Loud: Sitting on One's Ass Thinking of Peter Deane's questions by Larry Gross 03-01-06


Living Out Loud: Not So Nebulous A part of the universe by Brian Ciesko 02-22-06


Living Out Loud: Dear Paris Hilton Try to imagine how much I care by Larry Gross 02-15-06


Living Out Loud: The White Squirrel Crazy Gorgeous by C.A. MacConnell 02-08-06


Living Out Loud: Me and my E-mail Friends That special Internet connection by Larry Gross 02-01-06


Living Out Loud: Life Interrupted Coming to terms with foolish pride by Larry Gross 01-25-06


Living Out Loud: Speak Up! Defining patriotism by Heather Siladi 01-18-06


Living Out Loud: The Chain Gangs Clifton knows what it doesn't want by Larry Gross 01-11-06


Living Out Loud: The "One" Question That annoying tick by Loucresha Jones 01-04-06


Living Out Loud: You're as Old as you Feel Dr. Scholl and me -- part two by Larry Gross 12-28-05


Living Out Loud: Sit or Spin Cincinnati Laundromat Stories by C.A. MacConnell 12-21-05


Living Out Loud: A Slap in the Face Getting involved with child abuse by Larry Gross 12-14-05


Living Out Loud: Me and Juan's Body Drunken mathematics by John Court 12-07-05


Living Out Loud: Dr. Scholl and Me Complaints about getting older by Larry Gross 11-30-05


Living Out Loud: Buying the Look Out and about with The Citizen by Steven Paul Lansky 11-23-05


Living Out Loud: Blowing Our Own Horn L-O-L starts its third year by Larry Gross 11-16-05


Living Out Loud: Kristina Lives in Over-the-Rhine The Bus Ride by Larry Gross 11-09-05


Living Out Loud: When Circumstances Change Friendships by Larry Gross 11-02-05


Living Out Loud: Borrowed Money The President wouldn't approve by Heather Y. Miller 10-26-05


Living Out Loud: Literary Lunacy A writer's life by Larry Gross 10-19-05


Living Out Loud: Unconscious Racism Stop ignoring the obvious and demand equality for all people by Heather Siladi 10-12-05


Living Out Loud: Those Living Dolls Giving back to the community by Larry Gross 10-05-05


Living Out Loud: Under the Same Roof Conservative vs. liberal by Heather Siladi 09-28-05


Living Out Loud: Missing The ghost of Carrie Culberson by Heather Y. Miller 09-21-05


Living Out Loud Crawfish on a Sweatshirt by Larry Gross 09-14-05


Living Out Loud: Looking Straight Ahead Melvin by Larry Gross 09-07-05


Living Out Loud: An Open Invitation WWFP Extremist Cage Match ­ 2005 by Heather Siladi 08-31-05


Living Out Loud: My Father's Pets The fishing story by Larry Gross 08-24-05


Living Out Loud: The Citizen -- Blowing Smoke Kelly and the cigarette by Steven Paul Lansky 08-17-05


Living Out Loud Please Come to Boston 08-10-05


Living Out Loud: Pain Pals Some days are better than others by Susan Burke Steege 08-03-05


Living Out Loud: Looking for the Tooth Fairy Oral surgeons, codeine and rambling thoughts by Larry Gross 07-27-05


Living Out Loud: Fixing the Problems An immodest proposal for Cincinnati by John Court 07-20-05


Living Out Loud This Place: Lunch Hour on Seventh Street by Larry Gross 07-13-05


Living Out Loud: Code Baby Snowsuit Julia and autism by Mandy Calkins 07-06-05


Living Out Loud: The Runaway Columnist I'm gonna be rich too! by Larry Gross 06-29-05


Living Out Loud: The Citizen -- Let it Rain, Let it Pour Adventures in Binghamton, New York by Steven Paul Lansky 06-22-05


Living Out Loud: A Cincinnati Pentecost What is justice, what is peace? by Peter Deane 06-15-05


Living Out Loud Tap Water and Vinegar: Trying to Understand Drug Testing by Larry Gross 06-08-05


Living Out Loud: Just a Cat Named Dorey Remembering a friend by Larry Gross 06-01-05


Living Out Loud: One Day at a Time Back on the big fat wagon by Heather Y. Miller 05-25-05


Living Out Loud: Real People Richard and Kristina Ford invite me in from the rain by Larry Gross 05-18-05


Living Out Loud: He Was Frozen in Time It must be Albany by Steven Paul Lansky 05-11-05


Living Out Loud: Driven to Distraction Adventures at the bus stop by Larry Gross 05-04-05


Living Out Loud: Lip Service Holes in the social safety net by Valerie Greathouse 04-27-05


Living Out Loud: Blinded by the Light Thoughts on Michael Jackson by Larry Gross 04-20-05


Living Out Loud: There Goes Another Butt Noodle Bad words by Susan Burke Steege 04-13-05


Living Out Loud: Editorial on Editorial More "Diabetics R Us" discussion by Larry Gross 04-06-05


Living Out Loud: It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year "Best Of" week by Larry Gross 03-30-05


Living Out Loud: The Electric Fence Facing some difficult questions by Susan Burke Steege 03-23-05


Living Out Loud: Goodnight, Johnny I sure could use you now by Larry Gross 03-16-05


Living Out Loud: Dear X Running into the past by Heather Y. Miller 03-09-05


Living Out Loud: In the Spirit of Trying Something New A New Year's goose by Larry Gross 03-02-05


Living Out Loud: Dead and Buried Columns you'll never see by Larry Gross 02-23-05


Living Out Loud: "Don't Give Up On Me" Living with an alcoholic by Larry Gross 02-16-05


Living Out Loud: The Elephant Woman Remembering Aunt Sara by Heather Y. Miller 02-09-05


Living Out Loud: The Need for Constant Communication Cell phones by Larry Gross 02-02-05


Living Out Loud: Reading Maybe it will change your life by Larry Gross 01-26-05


Living Out Loud: John's Back Coming home from Vietnam by Susan Burke Steege 01-19-05


Living Out Loud: December 23, 2004 Sometimes a day will surprise you by Larry Gross 01-12-05


Living Out Loud: United We Stand? How friendships and communication cultivate understanding by Jeremy Flannery 01-05-05


Living Out Loud: Is There a Point? New Year resolutions by Larry Gross 12-29-04


Living Out Loud: Shoes on the Dashboard Subhead: Showing care and concern for others by Susan Burke Steege 12-22-04


Living Out Loud: Trying to Wake Up Rambling morning thoughts by Larry Gross 12-15-04


Living Out Loud: Sex, Lies and 12 Egg Omelets Jessica and The Hurricane Cafe by Larry Gross 12-08-04


Living Out Loud: Columbus Love Tap Tag -- you're it by Steven Paul Lansky 12-01-04


Living Out Loud: They Closed Looking for food in all the wrong places by Larry Gross 11-24-04


Living Out Loud: Nancy's Big Fat Belly Lessons in faith by Susan Burke Steege 11-17-04


Who Would've Thought? Living Out Loud turns one by Larry Gross 11-10-04


Living Out Loud: Squash Porn The shoe story by Dorian Devins 11-03-04


Living Out Loud: Trying to Figure it all Out Life's unanswered questions by Larry Gross 10-27-04


LIVING OUT LOUD: THE RIVER Separation and loss by Susan Burke Steege 10-20-04


Living Out Loud: A Piece of Cake Happy birthday to Alan by Larry Gross 10-13-04


Living Out Loud: Time for New Tactics by Gregory Flannery 10-06-04


Living Out Loud Stand By Your (Real) Man by Susan Burke Steege 09-29-04


Living Out Loud: Some Days Remembering my twin brother by Larry Gross 09-22-04


Living Out Loud: Black and White with Shades of Gray Diabetics R Us by Sara Beiting 09-15-04


Diabetics 'R' Us A One-Year Anniversary Salute, Sara-Style by Sara Beiting 09-08-04


Living Out Loud: Chain Letters, Miracles & Trendy Shoes The elevator story by Susan Burke Steege 09-01-04


I'm Living as Fast as I Can Getting that lucky second chance by Larry Gross 08-18-04


Living Out Loud: Soufflés and Tiffany Bags vs. Sausage Gravy and Bologna More food for thought on the Maisonette by Susan Burke Steege 08-11-04


Living Out Loud: Bon Appetit! Sara & Larry visit the Maisonette by Larry Gross 08-04-04


Living Out Loud: Playground Politics Taking a look at the prime-time players by Susan Steege 07-28-04


Living Out Loud: The Businessman A glimpse of sympathy by Larry Gross 07-21-04


Living Out Loud: Death of a Radiohead A talk radio pioneer's murder 20 years ago by Jeffrey Hillard 07-14-04


Living Out Loud: Words Left Unspoken I never talked with my father by Larry Gross 07-07-04


Living Out Loud: The Mother of Lost Summers Cicadas, uniforms and 1987 by Jeffrey Hillard 06-30-04


Living Out Loud: The Mother of Lost Summers

Cicadas, uniforms and 1987 by Jeffrey Hillard 06-30-04


Living Out Loud: Please Go Away Again A letter to Carol by Larry Gross 06-23-04


Living Out Loud: I‘d Rather Talk about Carver A visit with unassuming author Kent Haruf by Larry Gross 06-16-04


Living Out Loud: The Date Love & marriage & thereafter ­ part 2 by Larry Gross 06-09-04


Living Out Loud: Copping a New Attitude Who would've thought it would actually feel good to be proven wrong by Josh Flannery 06-02-04


Living Out Loud: Life Is Just a Bowl of Larries A week in the life by Larry Gross 05-26-04


Living Out Loud: James The man I didn't know by Larry Gross 05-19-04


Living Out Loud: A Hard Night's Night The enlargement of Mr. Johnson by Larry Gross 05-12-04


Living Out Loud: The Last Day of 49 The blessings of friendships by Larry Gross 05-05-04


Living Out Loud: The Man in the Wheelchair New Jersey and respect by Larry Gross 04-28-04


Living Out Loud: Lessons Learned from Ruth Ozeki Being part of the web by Larry Gross 04-21-04


Living Out Loud: A Day With Huggy Fargas and the red dress by Dorian Devins 04-14-04


Living Out Loud: Under the Age Limit Underage music-lovers have limited options on the local scene by Jeremy Flannery 04-07-04


Living Out Loud: Real Life Learning how to stop and smell the roses by Larry Gross 03-31-04


Living Out Loud: Sentimental Office Space Finding comfort in the past by Larry Gross 03-24-04


Living Out Loud: The Bus Stalker Trying to understand a "fan" turns to anger, then fear by Larry Gross 03-17-04


Living Out Loud: Standing Up for the Roanoke A sense of place, a sense of home by Larry Gross 03-10-04


Living Out Loud: Love & Marriage & Thereafter Life, sex and dating after divorce by Larry Gross 02-25-04


Living Out Loud: Adventures in the Grocery Store Is there such a thing as grocery shopping rage? by Larry Gross 02-18-04


Living Out Loud: The Long and Winding Road My 40 Years with The Beatles by Larry Gross 02-11-04


Living Out Loud: The Exit Interview Sometimes the Truth Hurts by Larry Gross 02-04-04


Living Out Loud: "Catch 23" -- Where's Kim Taylor? The joy and pain of getting behind a local artist by Larry Gross 01-28-04


Living Out Loud: The Burden of Ex-Communication Coping with the presence of a past relationship by Brandon Brady 01-21-04


Living Out Loud: Oh for Pete's Sake! Of course we're gonna love our hometown boy no matter what by Larry Gross 01-14-04


Living Out Loud: Comfort on the No. 17 Finding peace can come in strange places by Larry Gross 01-07-04


Living Out Loud: Because you Deserve It Your very own personal horoscope for 2004 by Larry Gross 12-31-03


Living Out Loud: CityBeat's at 811 Race Street I know this stuff -- I'm their mailman! by Bob the Mailman 12-17-03


Living Out Loud: Voice Messaging From Hell New technology ain't always better by Larry Gross 12-10-03


Living Out Loud: Reconciling That November Trying to figure out where a relationship went wrong by Larry Gross 11-25-03


Living Out Loud: Giving Thanks It's the little things that count by Larry Gross 11-19-03


Living Out Loud: Being Done vs. Reality Thinking things over as the big 50 approaches by Larry Gross 11-12-03



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