August 31, 2021 Moor or Less: Hey, Alexa, do you know Siri? My wife, always the thoughtful one, bought me an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas. Her name is Alexa — the Echo Dot, not my…
August 31, 2021 Bill Bilinski? Cool There’s a game my wife, Kate, and I often use to kill windshield time on long drives. We call it “Cool/Not Cool” and the…
August 31, 2021 A river documentary you shouldn’t miss For all my life I have assumed that the St. Joseph River is just a river. I grew up driving across the river to…
August 26, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 5 Next morning in Big Jim’s car, Sally looked back at me and said, “Nice shiner, little man. Did Kelly Carson give you that?” “He…
August 26, 2021 Moor or Less: A toast to the late, great Red Mack When writing about former Notre Dame running back William “Red” Mack, it’s hard to know how to begin. Do I start with how…
August 24, 2021 Worst. Day. After. Recent news about Hurricane Henri hitting New York City brought back a flood of memories. And not particularly pleasant ones. The incidences of hurricanes…
August 21, 2021 Great shots, laughter play well together at venerable South Bend Country Club Michiana has its share of elite golf courses, from Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame to Morris Park Country Club in South Bend to…
August 21, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 4 I won’t go into all my dealings with Wheat after school but you can bet I didn’t hit her in the arm like Big…
August 21, 2021 My Dad’s Clock And Its Mysterious Bongs So, physics or psychics? It is a question that has been hanging over my head for more than 20 years and just presented itself…
August 21, 2021 Moor or Less: I dug it, I dig it “What are you doing?“ my wife asked with the same concern in her voice that she has any time I have a tool in…
August 15, 2021 Moor or Less: Milt Lee’s dream job with South Bend schools Milt Lee knows they are laughing at him. He doesn’t care. That’s because he thinks someday he’ll have the last laugh. As the South…
August 15, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 3 I should tell you right now that I have never been much of a ladies’ man. Maybe I will be someday but not…
August 15, 2021 The Pooh Power of Really Good Service T “Winnie the Pooh doesn’t know what to do, got a honey jar stuck on his nose.” This article really should be no…
August 12, 2021 More and more kids in First Tee program but we need adults too Mike Mihalick probably never realized the lasting effect his putting a wood-shafted mashie into the hands of a youngster would have. Thanks to Michael…
August 8, 2021 The Squabble Sisters can’t stop bickering I suppose a lot of us kept lists last year. I made one, called “Where the Money Is,” so my survivors would know what…
August 6, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 2 We got up at 5:45 the next morning and ran four miles before breakfast. We do that most mornings. Why? Wheat says that’s what…
August 6, 2021 White Sox are clicking but… Clicking in 1969 Ron Santo first clicked his heels on June 22, 1969, after the Cubs rallied to beat Montreal and remain in first…
August 5, 2021 The Roomba disaster A big panic moment rattled our home last night. We could not find our Roomba. For those of us over 50, a Roomba is…
August 3, 2021 Moor or Less: This Website, the Cubs and Karen When I retired in late 2008 after almost 36 years with the Tribune, I was able to go on and do several really neat…
August 1, 2021 Our box of stuff ubi amor ibi oculus Years ago, when my father and I were renovating my first house, we ran into a snag. We had torn…
