September 30, 2021 Karen’s heart always on her sleeve Former Notre Dame associate athletic director John Heisler was a mover and shaker on campus for more than 40 years. Yet you wouldn’t find…
September 28, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 10-12 CHAPTER 10 The rest of the weekend was pretty boring — but how could it be any other way after accidentally decking Kelly Carson…
September 25, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 13-15 CHAPTER 13 The next morning, we got up and ran even though we had a meet that night. I just can’t talk Wheat out…
September 24, 2021 Occasionally, you need to be a guy I wore my soft-spike golf shoes to class today. It’s OK. I’m the teacher. The Saint Mary’s College students, who are all female and…
September 24, 2021 We all miss friends like Harold I was reading the obituaries today and learned of the passing of Harold Lowe. Harold was a colleague during my journalism days at…
September 21, 2021 Moor or Less: Terry Brennan held his own NOTE: Ken Bradford contributed to this story. Terry Brennan died two weeks ago at the age of 93, No news story in the Tribune…
September 20, 2021 Thoughts on the afterlife I don’t see a dead body very often. So when I do, I still react. And think. Driving home from vacation, my wife and…
September 17, 2021 Moor or Less: Don’t Mess With Bill “Don’t mess with Bill.” Ha, ha, that song did me a lot of good. When the Marvelettes sang that Top 10 hit back in…
September 11, 2021 More or Less: We remember Katie on 9/11 When Dick McCloskey would be up in his plane for his aerial photography business, he felt especially close to his daughter Katie. “When I…
September 9, 2021 This dream got a little squirrelly Before I begin this strange narrative, let me say for the record that, despite being a product of the ‘60s, I have not, nor…
September 9, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 7-9 CHAPTER 7 Inside, Lake was wattling along with his diaper drooping. “Barf, barf, barf,” he said while smiling at me. I looked at Wheat…
September 9, 2021 Moor or Less: A veteran’s response to 9/11 Twenty years. Sometimes, 9/11 seems like forever ago and sometimes, the horrors of that day hit me — and probably you — as if…
September 6, 2021 We had fun and flourished on Grammy’s porch When I walk in the evening, in various neighborhoods around town, I always take special note of the homes that have screened-in front porches….
September 1, 2021 A “kitchen reno”? Good luck with that At our house, if you want a glass of ice water, you have to go to the living room to fetch the glass. Then…
September 1, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 6 Later at practice, Coach Mathews pulled Wheat and me aside and said that Benny Goodchild’s mom had called and said that along with the…
September 1, 2021 A deep dive into one collector’s vinyl Years ago, when I had some control over a newspaper page, I was looking for a fun way to get readers involved. I came…
