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. …
August 28, 2023 Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame? I am writing this on Saturday, just as the college football season starts. For me, summer officially ends when the first college football game…
August 28, 2023 Teddy’s legacy put a ‘charge’ in me Teddy Roosevelt, Ruff Rider, I have always admired Teddy Roosevelt. It may have begun when his charge up San Juan Hill charged me up….
August 25, 2023 Moor or Less: About that creepy guy in a Cubs shirt When I ride my bike by a home in a nearby neighborhood, there is always a guy in Chicago Cubs shirt sitting on the…
August 20, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Staying away from water 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 20, 2023 The ‘gardener’ got me into Notre Dame Over the years, because I have difficulty hiding my passion for Notre Dame, I have been asked many times how I chose to come…
August 16, 2023 Mark and Wendy’s Excellent Adventure: Taking an overdue nap and wondering about Barbie 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 16, 2023 For the record – summer was sweet Summer. It was 1964, I was a seven-year-old-half-pint, and it was “a jolly ‘oliday with Mary.” Mary Poppins that is. My siblings and I…