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…
December 6, 2023 Oh where oh where can Father Sorin go? Dear Director Becherer, I really enjoyed reading Joe Dits’ South Bend Tribune article on the opening of the Raclin-Murphy Art Museum. I particularly liked…
December 5, 2023 Ah, yes, that Christmas brag letter Every year, we write a Christmas letter that has gained some acceptance because, in most years, I pretty much write about everything that went…
December 2, 2023 Squirrel thieves plague our family The story you are about to read is true. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. One day last summer my wife…
November 29, 2023 Moor or Less: These numbers add up to some of my favorite tunes I love numbers — like batting averages … mile times … populations of small Indiana towns … calories in a cookie (or two or…
November 28, 2023 Blake Wesley’s NBA journey hits bumpy road I mean no disrespect to Blake Wesley. But in an early-season NBA game, the San Antonio Spurs were trailing by 40 points and the…
November 26, 2023 An urgent trip to New York soon was fortified by love I wasn’t supposed to be there. But when we got the call on Friday, Nov. 17, my husband and I dropped what we were…
November 26, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: A special time 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…
November 21, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Fal-de ree, Fal-de-rah! 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…
November 20, 2023 How does Notre Dame stack up in bringing in the crowds? For several years I’ve been kicking around a college football stadium research idea. Anyone who has ever attended games in the behemoth stadiums (stadia?)…
November 19, 2023 Moor or Less: 60 years later, so many unanswered questions regarding JFK’s assassination I was sitting in the second seat of the second row in Mrs. Bolton’s ninth grade English class, counting down the minutes until the…
November 18, 2023 ‘Good for a Girl’ takes you behind the starting line As I turned to page 260, the last page in Lauren Fleshman’s book, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World,…
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 15, 2023 An F for Flutophone but an A for Appreciation of music I flunked Flutophone. There, I said it. In elementary school, before color was invented, I got the only F I ever received … in…
November 15, 2023 Finding a corpse and police log made my day I figure I’m about average in the luck department. Last Thursday was wonderful for two reasons. First, I discovered a dead chipmunk in my…
November 13, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: A modern Don Quixote 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…
November 13, 2023 Helping the homeless I grew up in the oldest fishing village/seaport in the United States. Like most folks back then, I was a JFK Democrat. Still am. Socially liberal. …
November 9, 2023 Moor or Less: Craig Counsell’s South Bend roots You may know that new Chicago Cub manager Craig Counsell is a Notre Dame graduate, but did you also know that he was born…
November 8, 2023 Who do you trust? “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway I’ve always considered myself a trusting…
November 6, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: We will miss being vagabonds 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…
