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Month: April 2023

April 29, 2023

Finding treasures and treats in small town settings

Bad news, the bartender said. We were in the Fulton Pub for our first time, shortly before noon on a Friday. Those words from…

April 28, 2023

On Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and other changes

While watching the newly-released Season 5 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” I recalled the very first episode of the series, when Midge began as a…

April 27, 2023

Moor or Less: Were we nuts for wearing jocks?

“Hey, you got your jock on?” I asked my grandson Gavin as he jogged up to me at his track practice. “Jockstrap,” I specified….

April 26, 2023

So can Alabama match this run of Irish QBs?

I don’t follow the NFL, so I had no immediate answer when a friend of mine told me that Alabama will have four QB’s…

April 20, 2023

Signs of the roads less traveled

Sign in … no need for an I.D. or P.W.  No digital interface. Nor a GPS, or a woman’s recorded voice confirming “you have…

April 20, 2023

Moor or less: Try these books out for size

 Last fall sometime, I told you that I was looking for some good books to read. I received some nice responses. Then I nodded…

April 18, 2023

Seriously, can humans become feral?

Lately, I’ve been thinking of Yoshihiro Hattori. Thinking of him a lot. More than 30 years, the 16-year-old Japanese exchange student was on his…

April 17, 2023

There’s some backward thinking with this research

I really don’t want to go around spreading crazy scientific claims so I will be up front with you.  The information I am about…

April 11, 2023

Where have all the teachers gone?

Indiana ranks No. 10 in the nation for teacher vacancies.  Why are so many teachers leaving the field? Because they are not paid enough?…

April 10, 2023

South Bend High used ‘trick’ forward pass before Notre Dame

The more liberalized rules on the forward pass did not go into effect until 1906, following the Roosevelt Commission’s rules, which were an attempt…

April 9, 2023

Moor or Less: A rock-hard landing in Tucson

“It could have been worse,” I said to my wife, Margaret, as I pulled her up off the side of a rocky trail in…

April 8, 2023

A Good Friday church walk opened my eyes to hope

For years, Broadway Christian Parish United Methodist Church on South Bend’s near southeast side has led a “Way of the Cross Walk” on Good…

April 3, 2023

Memories of people who are gone, and lessons I learned from them

I hear dead people. And when I hear them, I am reminded of the lessons I learned, and the settings where I learned them….

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