September 28, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: A little disconnect can be healthy Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
September 27, 2023 Moor or Less: An eating, pooping machine called Harry Harry the Guinea Pig, age 6, lived in our living room for the last half-year. A pet of our Indianapolis granddaughters, he was hounded…
September 23, 2023 How do you measure success? Success. It can be as broad as a banquet table or as small as a midnight snack. The official definition of success is: The…
September 21, 2023 Here’s one way to tell when head coaches are lying Bill, As a service to your readers, I am advising on how to spot the lies of College Football Head Coaches. During what I…
September 20, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Pay it forward Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
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…
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 16, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Pikes Peak both scary and exhilarating Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
September 13, 2023 Moor or less: South Bend lost one of its own on 9/11 The first person I always think about every 9/11 is Katie McCloskey. A graduate of South Bend Adams and Indiana University, she was on…
September 8, 2023 If only we were a little dumber Lately, I’ve been thinking about the ARHGAP11B gene. Thinking about ARHGAP11B a lot. No other creature with the exception of humans has the ARHGAP11B gene. I wish it…
September 8, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Columbine memorial stunning Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
September 7, 2023 A garden party Dad would have loved One of my earliest memories is of my three brothers and me picking berries. I was 6 years old and my family had moved…
September 5, 2023 Did I see our own version of Nessie in the St. Joe? I like to travel to Europe, and I have crossed the Atlantic over a hundred times, but I most like to cross on a…
September 4, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Red Rocks Amphitheater ‘rocks’ Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
September 4, 2023 Scam artists are a pain in the asphalt We live in an age of scam artists. The newer ones come to us courtesy of the World Wide Web and can con unsuspecting…
September 4, 2023 Jimmy Buffett ‘pinch-hit’ in Wrigley and was a hit with me “This is for Steve Goodman,” Jimmy Buffett announced to 36,282 fans at Wrigley Field before delivering an a cappella version of the national anthem….
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…
September 1, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: On the road again Editor’s note: Mark Bradford is contributing occasional posts from his diary on traveling the country with his wife Wendy while they rent out their…
August 29, 2023 Enough hatred. Please? I see it on the faces and in the body language of friends, family and strangers. Exhaustion about the current state of our politics….
August 29, 2023 Moor or Less: Scarred rugby mates mark 50 years I couldn’t help but study the knees of the guys at my table, discovering that most had the same surgical scars that I sport. …
