Issue 142 | Winter 2025

Name your favorite food(s)

I enjoy most cookies but I’m inclined to choose Tim-Tams as my favorite.

When did you join Plain Values?

I’ve been serving this team since 2018.

What magazine do you most often browse/read?

I have always bean particular to Roast Magazine.

How do you spend your spare time?

I like staying up late. I like rising early. I like steaming up a pair of clean glasses on a cold day. I love Tim-Tam-Team-Time.

List three bucket list items.

To brew a cup of the most expensive and most extravagant coffee in the world–Kopi luwak
To visit the ancient coffee forests on the Ethiopian plateau. There, legend says the goat herder Kaldi first discovered the potential of these beloved beans.
To brew a cup of coffee for someone famous. Perhaps an award winning musical artist or a best-selling author. Or both…

Name your favorite food(s)

Chicken bacon ranch pizza is definitely in the top spot. I do, however, enjoy any pizza (except plain cheese—blah).

When did you join Plain Values?

I began working part-time for Plain Values in May of 2016 and switched to full-time work in January of 2017.

What magazine do you most often browse/read?

More appropriately, “What magazine covers do you most often glance at?” I rarely browse magazines, but when I do, it’s probably Quality Whitetails, or the local newspaper (Does that count?).

How do you spend your spare time?

My current largest spare-time endeavor is producing a cappella music on YouTube (Just search Seth Yoder). Did I just… Was that a plug? Huh. Oh well. A close second is roundnet (a.k.a. spikeball). Spending an evening with family is also high on my list of enjoyed activities, as is deer hunting.

List three bucket list items.

I’ve never created a bucket list, so maybe that should be my first bucket list item:

Create a bucket list
Visit the Holy Lands
Reach 100,000 subscribers on YouTube
And number four, since the first item was kinda lame: Collaborate with a famous musician.

Name your favorite food(s)

I love trying new things so it’s hard to narrow it down, but I really enjoy sushi and BBQ.

When did you join Plain Values?

October 2021

What magazine do you most often browse/read?

It’s probably a tie between Taste of Home and Reader’s Digest.

How do you spend your spare time?

Reading, baking, and spending time with my family and friends.

List three bucket list items.

Hmm…never really thought about it before. I’d really like to do some more traveling, help my husband build a little cabin for ourselves, and create my own recipe book.

Name your favorite food(s)

My favorite food is beef or chicken, and any fresh food out of the garden, especially cooked by my wife.

When did you join Plain Values?

I started working with Plain Values towards the end of July in 2020.

What magazine do you most often browse/read?

I enjoy browsing the Western Horseman magazine.

How do you spend your spare time?

In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family, playing music, and riding horses.

List three bucket list items.

Three things on my bucket list are…

Finish my home studio.
Someday have a family band.
Take a trip out west with my family.

Name your favorite food(s)

That’s tough… I’ll have to break it into categories:

Coffee – Currently, it’s a Maple & Cinnamon Breve from Red Mug.

Pizza – Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza from Park Street Pizza.

Home Cooking – Mexican Chicken & Rice and Cornbread from the wife.

Snack – Yogurt-covered Pretzels from any of our local bulk food stores.

Breakfast – Baked Oatmeal with Yogurt.

When did you join Plain Values?

I remember the first issue I worked on was the September 2017 edition. So, I would have started in July 2017.

What magazine do you most often browse/read?

I love what the Eldridge’s are doing in And Sons. It’s one of the coolest mags I’ve seen.

How do you spend your spare time?

I enjoy writing. It’s mostly for my own therapy, but I do occasionally blog.

I also find running to be therapeutic, whether it is chasing my littles through the house or hitting the road.

List three bucket list items.

My current top 3 are…

Write a children’s book.
Run a sub-four-hour marathon.
Snowboard an actual Mountain. Any will do. Ohio Bunny slopes do not suffice.

Name your favorite food(s)

Sushi, Mexican, and most things my wife makes.

When did you join Plain Values?

The beginning. We published our first issue November of 2012.

What magazine do you most often browse/read?

I’m a print junkie, so that’s really hard to answer but here goes.

Gear Patrol, Modern Huntsman, Plough and The Flyfish Journal to name a few.

How do you spend your spare time?

Reading and some fishing.

List three bucket list items.

Fly fishing BC steelhead.

Catching Permit in the keys on a fly.

Opening a school for kids with special needs.