September 21, 2022 A place called Hope: Loons, lobster and lots of Maine memories My husband and I boarded the Southwest flight in Portland, Maine, and took our seats second row from the front on the left side…
September 20, 2022 Moor or Less: A close call for coaching legend (and careless cyclist) I was looking down for my water bottle as we went around a curve on our tandem bike when my wife suddenly yelled, “Watch…
September 20, 2022 Inches away from my moving car, this guy didn’t even care Here is how it went: I was driving north on Cassopolis Rd., near Simonton Lake. Two guys — buddies — walked across the…
September 17, 2022 When a company deals with my wife, don’t put my name on the envelope When you’ve been around someone for 40 years, you just know. Your gut can predict a reaction and the subsequent discussion. I was just…
September 13, 2022 Moor or less: The Monday morning quarterbacks aren’t whispering anymore I’ve never been much of a Monday morning quarterback. For a quarter of a century, I did my second-guessing on Sundays. I covered Notre…
September 12, 2022 Heroic (and fictional) Chip Hilton would be a tough fit in today’s college sports One of my first sports heroes was pure fiction. Chip Hilton was the main character in a series of books written by Clair Bee…
September 11, 2022 A familiar coffee cup put a smile on a homesick Border Patrol agent’s face As I recall, a warm winter day from some years back in mountainous rural Arizona a few miles from the border to Mexico, I…
September 9, 2022 Moor or less: Two churches sponsor a race while talking about race A few fast runners led the way, followed by a bunch of dedicated joggers and then a lot of carefree walkers at last Saturday’s…
September 8, 2022 How many words will you need for your legacy? A few years ago, my mother and I were talking about death. She had passed her 90th birthday, and she was surprised that she…
September 6, 2022 A lot of heroes saved a disheartened kid on this afternoon On Oct. 10, 2021, a Sunday afternoon, a nice-looking, young man walked into the Bell-Mart B.P gas station in Bremen where I was working…
August 28, 2022 Moor or less: Woody was always a presence in the pressbox Last week, the South Bend Cubs named the pressbox at Four Winds Field after the late Forrest “Woody” Miller, my old comrade at the…
August 28, 2022 We all need to stop yelling “Loser!” and be kind Thirty or so years ago, my son Bill joined his first basketball team It was at the Michiana YMCA, and this league for the…
August 25, 2022 Lessons learned from a different kind of DWI Just last week, I was caught DWI. But I am happy it happened, because it made me much more creative. In my world, DWI…
August 25, 2022 They went through Hell to see their daughter ‘Swim to the Moon’ When I told my older brother I was going to Hell, he asked if I was going in a hand basket. Last Saturday my…
August 23, 2022 I got Covid too, and I didn’t care for it After spending a weekend wedged uncomfortably beneath a pair of uncooperative sinks and hacksawing through a collection of antique plumbing fixtures, the Monday morning…
August 22, 2022 Moor or less: A week with Covid and without a TV or wife Could it get any worse? My wife was out of town for four days on a girl jaunt … our internet line had been…
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 19, 2022 Next civil war could happen without a single gunshot I’m frequently wrong about things. After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, there was immediate talk about going to war in Afghanistan. I…
August 19, 2022 Of predicting weather … spotting big cats … and already seeing Christmas reindeers Well, it’s been a quiet week in Lake Christiann, my adopted hometown out there east of Edwardsburg, Michigan The setting sun is slowly drifting…
August 18, 2022 What’s your one percent in improving your life? Rule number four in Jordan Peterson’s book Twelve Rules for Life states, “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else…
