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…
September 27, 2023 Moor or Less: An eating, pooping machine called Harry Harry the Guinea Pig, age 6, lived in our living room for the last half-year. A pet of our Indianapolis granddaughters, he was hounded…
September 13, 2023 Moor or less: South Bend lost one of its own on 9/11 The first person I always think about every 9/11 is Katie McCloskey. A graduate of South Bend Adams and Indiana University, she was on…
August 29, 2023 Moor or Less: Scarred rugby mates mark 50 years I couldn’t help but study the knees of the guys at my table, discovering that most had the same surgical scars that I sport. …
August 25, 2023 Moor or Less: About that creepy guy in a Cubs shirt When I ride my bike by a home in a nearby neighborhood, there is always a guy in Chicago Cubs shirt sitting on the…
August 16, 2023 Moor or Less: This bike story probably best left un’spoke’en Over the years, I’ve gotten off on the wrong foot several times … occasionally put my foot down … and, every once in a…
August 13, 2023 We need that human touch alongside computers “Everybody’s talking to computers, they’re all dancing to a drum machine.” It was true when Rick Springfield wrote and performed this phrase in 1983…
August 7, 2023 Moor or Less: Throw-back mower reels in young fans One of the advantages of living in our neighborhood is that Talboom Lawncare mows our grass — or at least a majority of mine….
July 26, 2023 Moor or Less: Uninvited guest is growing on me I’m not sure when it first showed up, but it certainly has made itself at home in my wife’s garden. Sort of like how…
July 17, 2023 Moor or Less: What’s in a Little League name? We were talking about team names and I told the table that I had once played on a Little League team called the White Owls…
July 9, 2023 Moor or less: We’ve all had our ‘rocky’ moments II’m sort of a collector and connoisseur of rocks. Me and Fred Flintstone. I guess there are worse hobbies. So when I was moving…
July 1, 2023 Moor or Less: He is building trust with the homeless Logan Reimbold-Thomas’s first undertaking out of college was coaching ultimate frisbee. How could he not love that? But sooner or later, he knew he…
June 19, 2023 Moor or Less: Managing a golf course and disease Mark Maurer, the operations assistant at Notre Dame’s Burke Golf Course, tries to live by the motto “Green Grass and Blue Skies.” That’s what…
June 5, 2023 Moor or less: Some readers show off their noteworthy noses A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about the smells — both good aromas and bad stenches — that stand out for me….
May 28, 2023 Moor or less: He loved living up to his name in World War II I remember 90-year-old Tom Pilot still riding his bike to Notre Dame’s Burke Golf Course with his small bag of clubs pulled over his…
May 27, 2023 Moor or less: Sept. 11 was this veteran’s nightmare long before the terrorist attacks I sat beside Ralph Anderson at a few of Eggleston Elementary School’s Christmas parties. Both of our wives taught there and we were dragged…
May 26, 2023 Moor or Less: Remembering a WW II pilot who never lost his will to fight for his country First of three stories about local veterans during Memorial Day Weekend: I first met Bob Pinkowski right after he stormed down to the U.S….
May 8, 2023 Moor or Less: At least my nose still knows As I get older, my eyesight has gotten worse, my hearing is on the blink, but my sense of smell seems to be as…
May 3, 2023 Bill Moor’s book is out and about Hey good readers, I now have boxes of my new book, “Kissing the Frog,” in my garage and want to get rid of them…
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….