September 19, 2023 Grumpy? I get it. References to “grumpy old men” are a common cliché. Did you ever see the movie, “Up,” in which Ed Asner’s curmudgeonly character, Bert, takes…
August 2, 2023 Gullible’s Travels For years we’ve been hearing about the dangers of disinformation and “fake news.” To be sure, it is dangerous when tens of thousands of…
July 10, 2023 Who are those guys? Would you believe they’re the Reds? Readers of a certain age may remember one of the iconic lines from the classic Western movie, “Butch Cassady & The Sundance Kid.” Butch…
July 6, 2023 What goes around, comes around When we’re teenagers and young adults, it seems that many times we tend to focus on our how our world views vary from the…
June 2, 2023 Work on your bucket list – before you kick it. Most likely you’ve seen books or articles about all the things you should do, all the places you should see, etc., before you die….
May 16, 2023 The perils of the portal Earlier this month, Mitch Albom, the Detroit Free Press sports columnist and occasional best-selling novelist, wrote a column entitled “College athletes jumping schools should…
March 30, 2023 One shining moment for Notre Dame women “But time is shortand the road is longin the blinking of an eyeah that moment’s goneAnd when it’s donewin or loseyou always did your…
February 21, 2023 Be afraid. Be very afraid. We knew it was coming, didn’t we? We had been warned. As far back as 1951, movies were forecasting the day when robots would…
February 15, 2023 R-E-S-P-E-C-T — We need more of it Was anyone else as embarrassed as I was at the level of rancor and rudeness on display at last week’s State of the Union…
February 2, 2023 Yeah, forsooth and verily, t’is this what I.A. be? Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) these days. The debate rages on as to whether it enhances creativity or devalues it. Or the…
January 3, 2023 Sports are fun until… Football is a sport. And sports are fun. Sure, there are times when that fun becomes bittersweet. Like when your favorite team misses a…
December 9, 2022 A curmudgeon’s Christmas wish: Less of the worn-out songs, more of the new originals Does anyone else hate that certain radio stations and most retail stores start playing only Christmas music in early November? And if that weren’t…
November 18, 2022 Age really is just a number Quite a few years ago, I was at a community prayer breakfast and happened to be seated next to the legendary Notre Dame coach…
November 14, 2022 Here are some of my mid-term musings Recent election cycles are like lingering hangovers. Between the prolonged vote counting and political pundit post-mortems, the discomfort goes on and on and on….
October 29, 2022 Another day in paradise, cold or otherwise One of my guilty pleasures in retirement is reading a good book. I find myself especially drawn to historical fiction and mystery novels. In…
October 7, 2022 Who says you can’t go back via a second honeymoon? The Cambridge dictionary describes a second honeymoon as a romantic holiday taken by a couple who have been married for some time. Although there…
September 29, 2022 A different career? A sports historian would have been pretty cool Recently, I wrote an article for this website about a daughter-driven project to tell the story of my life to my grandkids through a…
August 14, 2022 Here’s some questions to chew on In the spirit of the current Twizzlers TV campaign, I just thought I would share some truly profound questions for you to chew on. …
August 7, 2022 A modest proposal for putting the college sports genie back in the bottle College sports is a mess. I think most people will agree with that statement. However, the ideas I am about to put forth I…
July 29, 2022 Being ‘a good person’ may be the ultimate compliment In the 40 years my wife and I ran our marketing communications business, we had only one situation that required legal action. A highly…
