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 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….
March 3, 2023 What I want to tell people who don’t vote As we approach a primary election (May 2) in South Bend, I want to take this opportunity to talk about not voting, or rather,…
December 6, 2022 My Home Journal will explain the mysteries to our kids For almost 10 years, I’ve kept a “Home Journal,” writing about the major discoveries or changes we’ve made to the property we moved into…
August 25, 2022 Lessons learned from a different kind of DWI Just last week, I was caught DWI. But I am happy it happened, because it made me much more creative. In my world, DWI…
April 17, 2022 Lifelong lessons from an out-of-date dance teacher I’ve been thinking these days about a dance professor who taught at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in the mid-1970s. When I first met…
December 20, 2021 Would a doomsday scenario bring out the best or worst of us? I love to watch doomsday science fiction. Can’t get enough of it. Fueling this obsession is my one burning question: “When the end of…
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…
