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SubscribeView ArchivesThe tooth of the matter
BYThe total tonnage of my parental incompetence is staggering.
Read full articleAnother email: The sign of peace
BYA few years ago I stuck a peace sign on the back of my car. It was uncharacteristic of me. I’m not a bumper-sticker guy.
Read full articleUnbalanced: Beer, wine and ammo
BYThe sign in the tavern, which abutted a motel, intrigued me so much that I stole it.
Read full articleClunker Remorse
BYWell, I got rid of my clunker the other day, and now I’m suffering buyer’s remorse. And I’ll tell you why.
Read full articleUnbalanced: Where have you gone, Victor Martinez?
BYAt a major league ballpark in Chicago, as I tried to move out of the way, security guards rushed to stop a fight that had erupted on the concrete apron behind me. One of the guards ran into me, knocking me hard to the ungiving floor.
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SubscribeView ArchivesAfter 9/11 are we any safer?
BYOn September 11, 2001 almost 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Are we any safer in 2009?
Read full articleTed Kennedy and abortion
BYThe day had started early at the Charles River Square townhouse, which was then the Boston home of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Read full articleFrank McCourt at Notre Dame
BYThe invitation provoked incredulity and irony in equal measure. “Me?” inquired Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes and ’Tis. The first word of his letter was set off as a paragraph unto itself.
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SubscribeView ArchivesWho Was He?
BYFor many Notre Dame alumni, a walk inevitably takes one to the Grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.
Read full articleWhat was the fuss about ‘death panels’?
BYThe political debate about health care reform turned ugly this past summer. Reforms would lead to “death panels,” several alleged, and government bureaucrats would be making decisions to “pull the plug on grandma.”
Read full articleOn God, Country, Notre Dame
BYMy twin sister, Lacy Dodd ‘99, and I had looked for college money and found it with the U.S. Army. So we arrived at Notre Dame in 1995 as students and cadets in its Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program.
Read full articleI love the smell of barbecue in the morning
BYBarbecue at sunrise seemed to me perfectly appropriate after four years of football Saturdays in South Bend.
Read full articleOne shimmering Saturday
BYAnyone with any interest in college football has either watched or heard about some miracle comeback by some Notre Dame football team at one time or another.
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Subscribe View ArchivesMay I Have Your Attention Please... excerpt
BYA chapter from the book May I Have Your Attention Please … Wit & Wisdom from the Notre Dame Press Box.
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BYA chapter from the book Forgotten Four: Notre Dame’s Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season.
Read full articleThe Irish Way of Life excerpt
BYA chapter from The Irish Way of Life: Stores of Family, Faith and Friendship
Read full articleRe-reading The Moviegoer
BYEach year around this time, during the run-up to Ash Wednesday, I go to Mass with Binx Bolling, the philosopher-rake who narrates Walker Percy’s 1961 novel, The Moviegoer.
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