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Author: Scott Dunham

January 20, 2023

Truth? It can depend on how you hear it

Nineteen years ago, I found myself in frigid Des Moines, Iowa, with a group that included University of Notre Dame college students, a couple…

January 5, 2023

If car makers drop AM radio, it may cause some static

According to a story in the December 12 edition of the New York Times headlined “In Future Filled With Electric Cars, AM Radio May…

December 24, 2022

A wonderful Christmas gift: Seeing Copshaholm through my grandson’s eyes

I received one of the best early Christmas gifts on Sunday, December 4. It required no shopping or wrapping, just an openness to spontaneity….

November 28, 2022

My Christmas spirit comes from the heart, not from gifts and artificial trees

Tis the season! Or maybe, based on advertising and a local radio station broadcasting Christmas music at the beginning of November, we are already…

November 12, 2022

OK, I admit that I’ve become a winter sissy

Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz knew how to weave a folksy tale and use a pithy phrase. “Act like you’ve been there…

October 28, 2022

After plenty of bike breakdowns, my ride-to-work venture finally caught some momentum

Certainly (sarcasm alert!) regular Moor and More readers are waiting anxiously for a post mortem on my 2022 bicycle commute-to-work routine.  By the time…

October 9, 2022

Apples and cider have made my autumns worthwhile

There is very little about Northern Indiana’s change of seasons that I like. As someone who is cold eight months of the year, I…

October 1, 2022

We need the younger generations to know how to fix our stuff — and world

My parents were both big city kids. My mom grew up in New York City. My dad was from Detroit, Michigan. Growing up, when…

August 22, 2022

Gus the gopher at least fared better than Gertie in our backyard

In the almost three decades I’ve lived in my modest 1950s-era south side South Bend home, my backyard has been a mini-wildlife/nature preserve. Nothing…

August 14, 2022

It’s sad to see the church that helped raise me set to close

News of the impending end came via my brother. Although talk about the demise of Faith United Methodist Church had been circulating for months…

July 6, 2022

Tutt Library’s disruption was personal to me

An ugly incident occurred at the Virginia Tutt Branch of the St. Joseph County Public Library on June 27. According to a story published…

July 4, 2022

Is social media causing the demise of in-person class reunions?

South Bend’s James Whitcomb Riley High School class of 1982 has the a “significant” reunion this July. Reunions aren’t what they used to be….

June 12, 2022

Volunteering to help the homeless changed how I view them — and my own comfort

Mike was late that evening. The Project Warm volunteers had arrived and set out some food. The men had gathered. I delivered a short…

May 28, 2022

Lowering the flag: Is that the best we can do after school children die from gun violence

We’ve lowered the flags to half-staff yet again in front of our government buildings, schools, and cathedrals of consumption. It is such a trite…

May 1, 2022

Commuting to work by bike can be challenging but worth it

Fifteen years ago, a co-worker who rode his bicycle to and from work almost every day, year-round, talked me into giving the bike-to-work commute…

April 9, 2022

My college education wasn’t all about the classroom

I arrived at Indiana University in late August 1982. My dad drove up from Louisville to South Bend to transport me to Bloomington for…

March 27, 2022

The American Dream is becoming a nightmare for many

There’s no place like home. Home is where the heart is. Owning your own home is the American Dream.  For the past 36 years,…

March 7, 2022

The sweet sound of an affliction called nostalgia

“The things you loved when you were young will never be able to make you young again. The reluctant acceptance of this fact is…

February 23, 2022

Even as a longtime fainter, I can still donate blood

I come from a line of fainters, at least that has been my life-long story. My maternal grandfather was a fainter, according to my…

January 20, 2022

Children of incarcerated are not forgotten by Angel Tree

My church, Grace United Methodist Church in South Bend, has for years participated in the Angel Tree program, where our members purchase Christmas gifts…

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