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Month: January 2023

January 28, 2023

Moor or Less: In this digital age, I like my map on paper

I have my road atlas open on the kitchen table as I jump from page to page … state to state … map to…

January 25, 2023

The truth of it is, we had our own George Santos

A good brain holds data in neat filing cabinets, alphabetized and ready for recall. Others, like mine, have stuff stored every which way, in…

January 25, 2023

Moor or Less: Oh, brother, more nicknames

Below are some of the responses I received after my recent nicknames’ column. My pithy comments are in italics: _______ Nobody probably knows nicknames…

January 20, 2023

Emergency Rental Assistance program gets high marks

It’s hard to get people to agree on anything. For example, just 84 percent of Americans – and 66 percent of millennials – were…

January 20, 2023

Truth? It can depend on how you hear it

Nineteen years ago, I found myself in frigid Des Moines, Iowa, with a group that included University of Notre Dame college students, a couple…

January 20, 2023

Thoughts that consume me

1) Life’s greatest mystery: What goes on between the earlobes of drivers who don’t use their headlights when it’s obviously way past sunset? Or…

January 20, 2023

I was proud to be an Indian

As a former student, athlete and Booster Club president at Saint Joseph High School in South Bend, I have only known our athletic teams…

January 19, 2023

Am I a curmudgeon like ‘Otto’ or has the movie experience gotten worse

Until a few days ago, I had not been to a movie theater since COVID struck. And based on my recent experience, it may…

January 19, 2023

Moor or Less: I prefer Spanky over Moor-on

When I went off to college, I had no real nicknames. I finally had outgrown my “Little Bill” designation around the family, although I…

January 16, 2023

More than you need to know about my LPs

This shouldn’t take three months, but it probably will. I’m reorganizing my stereo LPs. I hesitate to use the word “collection” to describe what…

January 16, 2023

This story is about hearts

This story is about hearts. Not the card game, the rock band, or the hardest working muscle of the body. I’m talking about the…

January 10, 2023

If you’re fightin’, you’re not winnin’

If you’re fightin’, you’re not winnin’ In 1974, during my sophomore year at Notre Dame, two of my classmates got fed up with the…

January 6, 2023

Moor or Less: How about some recycled resolutions?

When I was writing regularly for the South Bend Tribune, I always used to share my New Year’s resolutions in an early January column….

January 6, 2023

Aunt Betty knew a bargain and a beautiful light

I attended the best funeral EVER yesterday, in Huntingburg, Indiana.  Typically, it’s insensitive to talk about a loved one’s funeral, but this is an…

January 5, 2023

If car makers drop AM radio, it may cause some static

According to a story in the December 12 edition of the New York Times headlined “In Future Filled With Electric Cars, AM Radio May…

January 3, 2023

Sports are fun until…

Football is a sport. And sports are fun. Sure, there are times when that fun becomes bittersweet. Like when your favorite team misses a…

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