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Month: July 2022

July 30, 2022

Moor or Less: Feisty and fearless, Joy will be missed

Aletha “Joy” Holloway grabbed a broom and looked like she was ready to use it … on me. “Not that bush! Not that bush!”…

July 29, 2022

Being ‘a good person’ may be the ultimate compliment

In the 40 years my wife and I ran our marketing communications business, we had only one situation that required legal action. A highly…

July 29, 2022

A Sunni story … about a dog who has that certain gift

I’ve never been a dog person. That is to say, I spent most of my life fearful of these furry fluffs ever since one…

July 24, 2022

Why I spent the past six weeks researching a single Babe Ruth home run

My eyes were blurry and fuzzy, courtesy of a four-hour binge session in the microfilm room, a byproduct of a bizarre obsession I’d developed…

July 23, 2022

If you look hard enough, you can always find a nastier job than yours

One of my earliest memories is of picking strawberries in a rocky patch east of our barn on Old Cleveland Road. Later in the…

July 20, 2022

Mulligan Stew: Aunt Betty survives one crime only to face an even steeper challenge

Sometimes, innocent people become victims of the not-so-innocent. If they survive, victims always say they learned a lot about life during their moments of…

July 16, 2022

Moor or Less: A lost friend and lots of regret

I was lined up with three or four other junior high school runners waiting to run the third leg of a relay when the…

July 14, 2022

An environmental dispatch from Singapore, Michigan

The trip from South Bend to Singapore might be a little different than you’d expect. It’s a lot of highway, followed by a cruise…

July 9, 2022

Moor or less: This big bill (or Benjamin) has got to go

I owed BillB a dollar after our weekly round of  Friday golf. As you can see, we are big bettors. “I don’t have a dollar…

July 9, 2022

HIs $40 trick was still worth the price for me

The best part about life, to me, is that stuff comes out of nowhere and just happens to you. Then it is up to…

July 6, 2022

Tutt Library’s disruption was personal to me

An ugly incident occurred at the Virginia Tutt Branch of the St. Joseph County Public Library on June 27. According to a story published…

July 4, 2022

Given the opportunity, she got game too

The first time I watched a girls basketball game, I tried to keep my yap shut. It was sometime after Thanksgiving in 1976 in…

July 4, 2022

Everyone has a story and here’s how I’m sharing mine with my offspring

I’ve often wondered how or why ancient peoples did such a remarkable job of passing along oral histories from generation to generation. By contrast,…

July 4, 2022

Is social media causing the demise of in-person class reunions?

South Bend’s James Whitcomb Riley High School class of 1982 has the a “significant” reunion this July. Reunions aren’t what they used to be….

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