April 19, 2024 Of “Being Mortal,’ old crocks and Keith Richards still standing — sort of “Hope I die before I get old” — The Who “My Generation.” Released 1965 “What a drag it is getting old” — The Rolling…
April 4, 2024 Broken light poles just one example of poor driving On my daily afternoon dog walk around the Monroe School neighborhood on South Bend’s near south side, I generally take the stretch of Michigan…
January 13, 2024 An old coat and car may be inanimate but also intimate I recently said goodbye to two old “friends” — our family’s 2007 maroon Honda CRV and my 11-year-old blue and gray Columbia Sportswear winter…
December 10, 2023 Sometimes, it pays to park in a grocery lot’s hinterlands It’s getting to the point where it’s not safe to go grocery shopping anymore. During the peak of the Coronavirus, I switched my longtime…
November 18, 2023 ND’s full-court blast too much for this fan I went to the Notre Dame men’s basketball opener against Niagara and a loud, high-tech variety show broke out. It’s been a while since…
November 2, 2023 This student journalist took exception to Bobby Knight’s crowd control tactics When I was a journalism major at Indiana University from 1982 to ’86, nobody loomed larger on the Bloomington campus than Bobby Knight, the…
October 15, 2023 Canterbury Cathedral no place for an acrophobic I am afflicted with acrophobia, the fear of heights. It’s not a cartoonish “High Anxiety” spinning in mid-air sensation. It’s more about being seized…
September 16, 2023 For my next trick … well, read on My childhood and adolescence were peppered with magic. I’m not referring to fairy dust and Disney World visits. Nor am I looking at my…
September 2, 2023 So do we feel doomed yet? I read Wayne Falda’s June 21 moorandmore.net commentary about “The End of the World as We Know It” (A hat tip to the rock…
July 30, 2023 Lots of additions to Battell Park, but historic rock garden hard to top The City of Mishawaka has a new rock star at Its oldest park. Battell Park, dedicated in 1881, has a newly opened playground and…
July 15, 2023 A return to IU never gets old, despite the drive It rained for most of the trip from South Bend to Bloomington on July 8. There might have been a little speck of sunshine…
June 7, 2023 So many of these road ‘improvements’ and flashing lights only make me see red The “Road Closed” signs appeared a week ago at intersections along Ridgedale Road from Ironwood Drive to York Road. Stanley Clark School sponsors a…
May 14, 2023 ‘Breaking Away’ always takes me back to my IU days Last weekend, I watched one of my favorite movies, “Breaking Away.” It was on the free Movies channel (with a lot of commercial interruptions)….
April 8, 2023 A Good Friday church walk opened my eyes to hope For years, Broadway Christian Parish United Methodist Church on South Bend’s near southeast side has led a “Way of the Cross Walk” on Good…
March 10, 2023 We need to start seeing the ‘invisible people’ I see invisible people. It’s not a superpower, but it does take a conscious effort. I have frequently been an invisible person myself. I…
February 24, 2023 A ‘green’ group’s St. Patrick’s Day surprise St. Patrick’s Day was never my favorite day. When I was in elementary school, there was a tradition that if you didn’t wear green…
February 9, 2023 Today’s ticket prices make concerts a memory for me now John Mellencamp is coming to South Bend’s Morris Performing Arts Center for two shows in June. During the 1980s, Mellencamp, who went by John…
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….