Columns

Don’t say that about my dog

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Editor’s note — This story was penned by the author in in 2015.

The portal, NIL and betting

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I may be out of my league on this one, but in my view, college football is losing its game. The University of Michigan and Jim Harbaugh saved their program by diving deep into the transfer portal, along with who knows how much was spent in Name-Image-Likeness (NIL). Loyalty to your alma mater? Forget about it.

Donuts in the middle of the day

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While a person may buy a cake here in Mexico seven days a week from early morning to late at night, getting any other kind of dessert is more challenging.

Tools to gain AI assistance

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Editor’s note — This is part one of a multipart column.

Steve, Joe, me: Meeting Aerosmith

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Editor’s note — This is the fifth and final of a multipart column about the author meeting famous rock and roll stars.

More than a mischief-maker

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While Washington dithers over Hunter Biden’s laptop, threatens impeaching this guy or that, whether to fund our military, social security or the rest of our government, North Korea fastens hypersonic warheads to its ballistic missiles and ups its relationships with China, Russia and Iran, in an “Axis of Authoritarianism.” For those who haven’t noticed, the world stage is full of despotic dictators with regional aspirations of conquest.

Sweetness added to the day

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My husband, Peter, and I landed in Mexico again, and we did what we have done in the past. We bought an enormous cake.

The light of the world

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Many years ago I took a church youth group to Marengo Caves in Indiana. We spent a couple of hours underground touring the caves with lot of twists, turns and smallish places we belly-crawled through. At one point our guide told us of a similar group of tourists back in 1982 who turned a corner and were confronted by a masked gunman on a ledge demanding that they turn over their valuables. They laughed as they assumed it was part of the tour. It wasn’t.

An unexpected encounter with Beck

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Editor’s note — This is the fourth of a multipart column about the author meeting famous rock and roll stars:

The border, Ukraine and Israel

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Do I support U.S. military funding for Ukraine to thwart Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty? Yes, I do, unequivocally. Do I regret that the funding of Ukraine’s defense against Putin’s aggression has become a partisan football? Yes, it’s a sad commentary of our times that every and anything that needs serious attention has become zero-sum team politics.