October 31, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: The Miracle of Every Day Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
October 31, 2023 Remember, I am an expert on this subject During my freshman year at Notre Dame, my first home football game was a real whipping of Northwestern. The way I remember it, in…
October 25, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Finding Tybee Island Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
October 24, 2023 Moor or Less: The summer I lost it in France My high school French teacher’s face popped up on my screen the other day as a Facebook friend suggestion. She probably came to the…
October 24, 2023 I’m laughing less about those end times stories Earlier this year, in April, two men were working on a car late at night near Las Vegas when they came face to face…
October 20, 2023 The Bergamot: A journey of unity “What were we thinking?” Jillian Speece and I laughed as we hugged upon meeting in front of Notre Dame’s campus bookstore. We’d both spaced…
October 19, 2023 ReCap: He beat out Rockne but couldn’t out-run the law Below is one of the recaps that Notre Dame historian Cappy Gagnon has written on former Irish football players. Clinnin, Walter Andrew (listed as…
October 19, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Dealing with Miss GPS Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
October 15, 2023 More or Less: Neighbor Ken’s kindness — and yard — was in full bloom year-round When I think of our old neighbor Ken Horvath, a passage from Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” comes to mind. “And it was always said…
October 15, 2023 Canterbury Cathedral no place for an acrophobic I am afflicted with acrophobia, the fear of heights. It’s not a cartoonish “High Anxiety” spinning in mid-air sensation. It’s more about being seized…
October 14, 2023 Marvin Wood’s best lesson wasn’t about winning A few years back, if I recall properly, Mishawaka and South Bend were looking for a slogan that could help attract tourism. Our state…
October 8, 2023 Time, where art thou? It was a dewy morning, one that dished out delicious summer sun; a bonus day in early October. Time was on my mind. It…
October 6, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: A haircut and a helping hand Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
October 5, 2023 Moor or Less: No, Mom, I’m not wing-walking again My wife, out of the blue, decided to take a beginners’ juggling class through the Forever Learning Institute. Well, it was out of the…