October 23, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 22-25 (final) CHAPTER 22 I got up at 5:30 the next morning after a restless night. Lots of crazy dreams. The one I remember most was…
October 21, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 16-18 CHAPTER 16 I wasn’t looking forward all that much to our drive to school. “So maybe this is the time that Sally will want…
October 16, 2021 Moor or Less: Back together after 70 years Jerry Mueller thought he had found his soulmate right there in his hometown of Bay City, Mich. Her name was Jean Arndt and she…
October 12, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 19-21 CHAPTER 19 Kelly drove us home. I sat in the back, of course. It doesn’t matter who’s in a car with me. If there…
October 6, 2021 Moor or Less: A book on a President, parasite and professor Thomas Platt, a retired Saint Mary’s College biology professor, named a parasite he had identified after a cousin — actually a fifth cousin, twice…
October 1, 2021 Jerry talked a good game — and played one, too Jerry Flanagan was wearing his green Erskine Golf Course sweater with a golf tee placed in one hand and an ancient pocket watch in…
September 28, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 10-12 CHAPTER 10 The rest of the weekend was pretty boring — but how could it be any other way after accidentally decking Kelly Carson…
September 25, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 13-15 CHAPTER 13 The next morning, we got up and ran even though we had a meet that night. I just can’t talk Wheat out…
September 21, 2021 Moor or Less: Terry Brennan held his own NOTE: Ken Bradford contributed to this story. Terry Brennan died two weeks ago at the age of 93, No news story in the Tribune…
September 17, 2021 Moor or Less: Don’t Mess With Bill “Don’t mess with Bill.” Ha, ha, that song did me a lot of good. When the Marvelettes sang that Top 10 hit back in…
September 11, 2021 More or Less: We remember Katie on 9/11 When Dick McCloskey would be up in his plane for his aerial photography business, he felt especially close to his daughter Katie. “When I…
September 9, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 7-9 CHAPTER 7 Inside, Lake was wattling along with his diaper drooping. “Barf, barf, barf,” he said while smiling at me. I looked at Wheat…
September 9, 2021 Moor or Less: A veteran’s response to 9/11 Twenty years. Sometimes, 9/11 seems like forever ago and sometimes, the horrors of that day hit me — and probably you — as if…
September 1, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 6 Later at practice, Coach Mathews pulled Wheat and me aside and said that Benny Goodchild’s mom had called and said that along with the…
August 31, 2021 Moor or Less: Hey, Alexa, do you know Siri? My wife, always the thoughtful one, bought me an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas. Her name is Alexa — the Echo Dot, not my…
August 26, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 5 Next morning in Big Jim’s car, Sally looked back at me and said, “Nice shiner, little man. Did Kelly Carson give you that?” “He…
August 26, 2021 Moor or Less: A toast to the late, great Red Mack When writing about former Notre Dame running back William “Red” Mack, it’s hard to know how to begin. Do I start with how…
August 21, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapter 4 I won’t go into all my dealings with Wheat after school but you can bet I didn’t hit her in the arm like Big…
August 21, 2021 Moor or Less: I dug it, I dig it “What are you doing?“ my wife asked with the same concern in her voice that she has any time I have a tool in…
August 15, 2021 Moor or Less: Milt Lee’s dream job with South Bend schools Milt Lee knows they are laughing at him. He doesn’t care. That’s because he thinks someday he’ll have the last laugh. As the South…