Josh Benner

Month: March 2012

  • 7 songs I’m ashamed to admit I secretly love (considering that I’m a man)

    The Wanted. They are an English boy band who has a new song (video above) called “Glad You Came.” Now – I’m obviously not in their target demographic, but I absolutely love this song. I listen to it multiple times a day. It got me to thinking: as embarrassing as this song is for me…

  • Tonight’s storm: How the weatherman said it was, how it actually was

    A few weeks ago on Facebook, a number of people were posting those “this is what my friends think” pictures. I was reminded of those photos this evening when I was listening to some of our local weathermen in Columbus describe the severe thunderstorms that rolled through the city. It’s like “How the weather actually…

  • March Madness: my bracket

    I have decided to switch up my strategy this year. In past seasons, I’ve tried to pick upsets. They can make you look like a genius, but the odds are against you picking the right ones. If you tend to stay with favorites, and they lose, the loss will hurt most other people as well.…

  • The perspective tragedy gives on what really matters

    It’s so easy to lose perspective. It’s so easy to complain out of habit, to get frustrated when things don’t go perfectly. We have our waiter make a mistake with an order and respond like they’ve committed some type of wartime atrocity. We complain and we get bitter. I think it’s not because the things…

  • BGSU tragedy: shared grief I’ve observed from alumni

    I was out to dinner with my family this evening. The conversation swirled around various topics, but I was mostly in a different world, thinking of the deaths of three young sorority sisters in Alpha Xi Delta and I struggled to muster up much of an appetite to eat my meal. At a couple points,…