July 30, 2022 Moor or Less: Feisty and fearless, Joy will be missed Aletha “Joy” Holloway grabbed a broom and looked like she was ready to use it … on me. “Not that bush! Not that bush!”…
July 16, 2022 Moor or Less: A lost friend and lots of regret I was lined up with three or four other junior high school runners waiting to run the third leg of a relay when the…
July 9, 2022 Moor or less: This big bill (or Benjamin) has got to go I owed BillB a dollar after our weekly round of Friday golf. As you can see, we are big bettors. “I don’t have a dollar…
June 30, 2022 Moor or less: I had my grandkids’ numbers — or so I thought I’m always looking for ways to annoy my grandkids. Life wouldn’t be so fun if I couldn’t. So while we are on a family…
June 22, 2022 Moor or less: My bike was okay in the bar but my shorts ….? I carried my bike through Pejza’s Tavern in Lydick and out onto the patio where some of my buddies were gathering for lunch. They…
June 15, 2022 Moor or Less: Of the Covid tightrope, Time’s cover and a Doobies’ song My sister, nephew and his wife came back from a trip to Disney World with their little ones and then tested positive for Covid….
June 9, 2022 Of friendly pushes … counting blessings … and another try with a tree The elderly lady looked in pain as she leaned over her walker and waited in the restaurant’s parking lot. “You OK?” I asked. “Not…
May 30, 2022 Moor or less: I made John Floyd’s great granddaughter cry I made a little girl cry the other day. Her grandmother brought her to the garden center where I do some part-time work this…
May 20, 2022 Moor or Less: One too many Me’s on Facebook Facebook? Maybe not. About 10 years ago, I did give it a try. I slowly accumulated “friends” and never posted a single thing. And…
May 10, 2022 Moor or Less: Carl Evans is all about faith and family I found Carl Evans where he often is these days — in the bleachers watching one of his 11 grandkids compete. We talked about…
May 5, 2022 Moor or Less: A Caveman (and Hoosier) forever I was walking down the Penn High School bleachers while John Roggeman was coming up, decked out in his I.U. red. I liked his…
April 26, 2022 More or Less: Remembering seven people who made me smile I used to chuckle when somebody would say to me, “Your (South Bend Tribune) column is the first thing I read right after the…
April 16, 2022 Moor or Less: Cyclist takes us on ride through local history Aaron Helman is my kind of guy. The 38-year-old South Bender is an avid cyclist, a born-and-raised Chicago Cub fan and Clay Methodist…
April 12, 2022 Moor or Less: Everyone’s from somewhere, even Blytheville We were about 10 miles from the Missouri state line as we approached Blytheville, Arkansas, where there was an affordable Hampton Inn, a Perkins…
April 6, 2022 Moor or Less: Driving through the land of pumpjacks, pickups and, yes, roughnecks “Man, roughnecks galore,” I said as a constant line of pickups passed us by with various work cargo in their truck beds. “That’s not…
March 24, 2022 The high cost of low prices In the morning, how many of us pour coffee into a ceramic mug, dress in a nice outfit, or make an omelet with peeled…
March 18, 2022 Moor or Less: Of Sssssnakes, Sorukas and Spin The 20-something hiker, a Ball State baseball cap on his head, went by me on our descent from one of the ridge trails around…
March 3, 2022 Moor or Less: Cowboys and cowgirls revisited Young female riders, their cowboy hats pulled down hard on their heads and their horses flying around as if they had wings, circled the…
February 23, 2022 Moor or Less: It was Spike from the very beginning Note: This story is part of a series that Bill Moor is writing for Clay Methodist Church on some of its members’ lives, including…
February 14, 2022 Moor or Less: Jean Gates Celebrated Her 75th Anniversary Before She Passed When Jean Inglefield — later Jean Gates — went to Adams High School in the early 1940s, schoolmate Fred Crowe said she was the…