April 25, 2024 On cow manure and keeping your sanity My father would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what I did today. I bought cow manure to help get my…
April 25, 2024 Some trends in education are just plain dumb Even though I retired from the classroom several years ago, I am still a teacher at heart. With a double major in Early Childhood…
April 24, 2024 For some reason, we named a road after Francis Quarles You’ve probably never been to Quarles Road. In fact, you’ve probably never heard of it, and it’s even less likely that you know the…
April 21, 2024 Moor or Less: What characters keep you turning the pages? I’m hoping for a little reader participation. Yeah, I’m looking at you. Off the top of my shiny head, I’ve named 10 of my…
April 21, 2024 NLRB, NCAA and NIL — they sure can mess up college sports If you’re disappointed at the current sad state of College Athletics, don’t expect your spirits to be lifted by this “unfair labor complaint” filed…
April 20, 2024 Cancer is just the worst Cancer sucks. It seems that, lately, every time I turn around, someone I know is fighting cancer. It’s to the point that I don’t…
April 19, 2024 Of “Being Mortal,’ old crocks and Keith Richards still standing — sort of “Hope I die before I get old” — The Who “My Generation.” Released 1965 “What a drag it is getting old” — The Rolling…
April 15, 2024 DuBail Avenue: Probably the only local road named after a French barber Pierre DuBail was born in Paris, France, in 1834, removed by 70 years and 4,000 miles from the South Bend street that would eventually…
April 11, 2024 The day the rooster crowed and The Bear prowled at Augusta Jack Nicklaus won his final major golf championship and his sixth Masters on April 13, 1986. The following was written by me on April…
April 10, 2024 Moor or Less: Of disappearing suns … the best time of the year … and walk-up songs I didn’t get as crazy as some people did for the eclipse (my daughter and two of my grandkids drove to Indy to watch…
April 10, 2024 ‘Croce Plays Croce’ is a legacy worth hearing Unless you lived under a rock in the 1970s, you were familiar with the music of Jim Croce. And if you were familiar with…
April 9, 2024 All these famous (or infamous) folks have something in common with me I was musing the other day, while trying to come up with something amusing for your blog. One of the things I like to…
April 8, 2024 Morel of the story? I can’t rule out Dad in this mystery I was retrieving a hose reel from my backyard shed when I saw something that startled me. Blending in with my composting leaf pile…
April 8, 2024 Have a seat, Mr. Huey, this road is named for you Huey Street runs north and south along South Bend’s near westside, connecting Lathrop and Washington streets, and carving neat lines that run alongside my…
April 4, 2024 Broken light poles just one example of poor driving On my daily afternoon dog walk around the Monroe School neighborhood on South Bend’s near south side, I generally take the stretch of Michigan…
April 4, 2024 Movement by any other name is just as sweet Movement. What if we looked at movement through a new lens and instead of calling it exercise, we called it play? Did you know…
April 1, 2024 Thomas Dunham: South Bend’s justice of the peace who died of a curse? Dunham Street is a broken road on South Bend’s west side, running east and west in bits and pieces through old Polish neighborhoods, split…
March 31, 2024 An LAPD hero … a Notre Dame usher … and a winning cook On February 28, 1997, a bank robbery occurred in what was to be the largest shootout in American history. A robbery call went out…
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…