November 3, 2021 My father, a WW II veteran, wasn’t a whiner I’ve been in a mood to write about my father lately. He died about 20 years ago. His memorial service was on the day…
October 26, 2021 Kissing the Frog – Entire Book Kissing the Frog, Chapter 1 – Moor and More Kissing the Frog: Chapter 2 – Moor and More Kissing the Frog: Chapter 3 –…
October 25, 2021 Moor or Less: Every T-shirt tells a story I’ve never been much of a collector. Sure, I collected baseball cards when I was a kid, but failed miserably with stamps and coins….
October 23, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 22-25 (final) CHAPTER 22 I got up at 5:30 the next morning after a restless night. Lots of crazy dreams. The one I remember most was…
October 21, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 16-18 CHAPTER 16 I wasn’t looking forward all that much to our drive to school. “So maybe this is the time that Sally will want…
October 16, 2021 Moor or Less: Back together after 70 years Jerry Mueller thought he had found his soulmate right there in his hometown of Bay City, Mich. Her name was Jean Arndt and she…
October 14, 2021 Remembering a friend’s unconventional life: Both his writing and career took many turns I usually don’t write tributes. I’m suspicious of them. Too often, I know the person being featured, and their life stories end up sounding…
October 12, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 19-21 CHAPTER 19 Kelly drove us home. I sat in the back, of course. It doesn’t matter who’s in a car with me. If there…
October 6, 2021 Moor or Less: A book on a President, parasite and professor Thomas Platt, a retired Saint Mary’s College biology professor, named a parasite he had identified after a cousin — actually a fifth cousin, twice…
October 3, 2021 Sara Stewart feeds and unites a community Sara Stewart’s journey with Unity Gardens is well-known, but it deserves repeating. In 2008, she was a public health nurse and educator when she…
October 2, 2021 My lessons from the softball parking lot The best lesson I learned about retirement didn’t come from a seminar or an AARP Magazine. It came from a guy named Mike who…
October 1, 2021 Jerry talked a good game — and played one, too Jerry Flanagan was wearing his green Erskine Golf Course sweater with a golf tee placed in one hand and an ancient pocket watch in…
September 30, 2021 Karen’s heart always on her sleeve Former Notre Dame associate athletic director John Heisler was a mover and shaker on campus for more than 40 years. Yet you wouldn’t find…
September 28, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 10-12 CHAPTER 10 The rest of the weekend was pretty boring — but how could it be any other way after accidentally decking Kelly Carson…
September 25, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 13-15 CHAPTER 13 The next morning, we got up and ran even though we had a meet that night. I just can’t talk Wheat out…
September 24, 2021 Occasionally, you need to be a guy I wore my soft-spike golf shoes to class today. It’s OK. I’m the teacher. The Saint Mary’s College students, who are all female and…
September 21, 2021 Moor or Less: Terry Brennan held his own NOTE: Ken Bradford contributed to this story. Terry Brennan died two weeks ago at the age of 93, No news story in the Tribune…
September 20, 2021 Thoughts on the afterlife I don’t see a dead body very often. So when I do, I still react. And think. Driving home from vacation, my wife and…
September 17, 2021 Moor or Less: Don’t Mess With Bill “Don’t mess with Bill.” Ha, ha, that song did me a lot of good. When the Marvelettes sang that Top 10 hit back in…
September 11, 2021 More or Less: We remember Katie on 9/11 When Dick McCloskey would be up in his plane for his aerial photography business, he felt especially close to his daughter Katie. “When I…