March 25, 2024 Moor or Less: Of awkward conversations, sweet tattoos and ‘Punt, John, punt’ The guy had to wait in the Chick-fil-A parking lot here in Tucson while my wife and I cut in front of his car….
March 25, 2024 ‘They built the Grotto with the rocks from his farm’ My friend Greta told me the story as if it were an urban legend, and as I watched her speak through the wisps of…
March 24, 2024 ‘Chucks’ named after one of our own Though many know just the name of the iconic shoe brand, Chuck Taylor was a real person, and was born in Brown County, Indiana…
March 23, 2024 I listened to the NCAA bracket experts and looked what it got me I filled out a bracket on Sunday night and shared it with my kids, as they are both in bracket challenges at their schools….
March 23, 2024 Nine folks with similar beginnings My friend Gerry Beirne is a retired Rhode Island Parish Priest. We met as fellow baseball historians. Gerry is the leading authority on all…
March 21, 2024 All you wanted to know about Aaron Helman’s books Meet me at BookCon – This Saturday! Hello friends! It’s been an exciting several weeks, but there is still lots of new and exciting stuff…
March 19, 2024 Rudolph Donmoyer: Mayor of South Bend’s Kalamity Korners and so much more Four years after the first shots had been fired in the conflict that would become the American Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee…
March 15, 2024 More or Less: Thanks, Caitlin, for the show … and for triggering great memories I love watching Iowa’s Caitlin Clark play basketball … almost as much as I like watching Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo and her supporting cast….
March 14, 2024 What I would do with those Toll Road litterers As moorandmore.net readers have learned, I write two types of stories. One kind is about a topic I have heavily researched because of a…
March 14, 2024 My ‘name game’ may be lame, but I can’t help myself My retirement has meant there is a new adventure in getting in trouble with the powers that be in the house every day. I…
March 13, 2024 Mulligan Stew: How many ‘take a bullet for you’ friends do you have? If we have ever had a conversation, chances are I will call you “my friend.” After we have gone somewhere together in the same…
March 11, 2024 Without ‘One-Play’ O’Brien, Rockne’s Gipper speech might have been forgotten In popular music, there have been many “one hit wonders.” In the 1960s and 70s, we had “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens, “Wipe…
March 11, 2024 Alexander Napier Thomas: South Bend’s forgotten mayor Alexander Napier Thomas died on March 26, 1904, at the age of 64. Complications from a lifelong struggle with diabetes had felled him in…
March 11, 2024 Who the heck came up with Daylight Saving Time? It happened again this weekend. The dreaded “spring forward” date forcing all of us to adjust our clocks and lose a precious hour of…
March 10, 2024 Maui is like landing somewhere over the rainbow – in flip flops Saturday, February 17, was supposed be free of inclement weather. I know. I checked the forecast daily a week ahead of time. Several times…
March 6, 2024 Moor or Less: No Pepper is not a good sign to me My wife stared at the sign with the same expression that she might wear while watching 7,000-pound hippos dance the twist on their two…
March 5, 2024 Ike had a little help from Father Ted for the Toll Road route One of the greatest accomplishments of the Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower was the creation of the Interstate Highway System. The part that passes fewer…
March 4, 2024 Lot Day: Making the most of his day in South Bend It’s in the 19th chapter of Genesis that Lot and his family fled to escape the destruction of Sodom. The angels had warned them…
February 29, 2024 Norman Eddy: The most brilliant South Bender of all time? Colonel Norman Eddy is more than a Civil War hero. He’s more than the namesake of a beer at Brew Werks, and he’s more…
February 27, 2024 Moor or Less: Everyone has a story to tell — even when they’re gone As a longtime writer, I have always held the belief that everyone has a story to tell. And when I read the obituaries these…