Ten Playlists for Your Next Writing Project

As a writer, I find that words distract me. What?  Yes. I'm easily distracted by words. If there's a TV on, I'm subconsciously listening. If there's a conversation going on, I can't not hear it. And, of course, if a song has words, my mind is following (and maybe singing) them. I'm on a quest to devour as many words as possible, and I can't save me from me. That's why Matt and I listen to instrumental music when we write, and we've compiled our most-frequented playlists and albums to share with [...] Read More

Moving What Matters

The Women’s Fund of Greater Fort Wayne is committed to understanding—and overcoming—the challenges facing women and girls in our community. Through research, education and collaboration, they are making amazing strides to uncover and address the most important issues that shape women’s futures. This initiative needed a powerful brand identity that matched its level of importance. Along with the team at The Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, we brought their vision to life through a color pallet full of vitality, and a bold logo that represents opening essential conversations about [...] Read More

Our Three Favorite Hoppy Gnome Tacos

As you may recall from our Taco Tuesday post, we don't mess around about tacos. And we've got a special place in our hearts for our downtown taco establishment—The Hoppy Gnome. Great service, locally owned, great food... what more can you ask for? As a team, we've consumed more Hoppy Gnome tacos than we can really count. So, we took an internal poll to see which ones rose to the top! We rated our favorites and assigned points—here are the results! Korean Short Rib Taking the gold, Korean Short Rib [...] Read More

OLG’s Favorite Things: Podcasts

Some of us are podcast junkies. Some of us dabble. Regardless, we like to listen to 'em. Check out our favorites! The Best of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz A daily, 60-minute distillation of the anti-sports talk show that airs weekdays on ESPN Radio from 10A–1P. I figure it takes at least 25 episodes to finally “get the show” (and those first 25 will frustrate you to no end), but once you’re in—it’ll be all you listen to, or think about, and you’ll spend most of your time [...] Read More