Opinion

Indiana leads on energy innovation

By RYAN CRNARICH Guest Columnist It’s an exciting time to live and work in Indiana, as a spate of new clean energy and technology manufacturing projects are promising 21st century…


Degrees of love

As Chuck, my perpetual thermostat adversary, walked through the living room, I could see he realized that I had tampered with the thermostat setting. He quickly glanced at the Honeywell…


A look back at our Civil War past

Hurrah for the Hamilton Continentals! Have you heard of the Hamilton Continentals? They were not some traveling baseball team, a barbershop quartet, or a defunct Indiana automaker from yesteryear. They…






Cloak of shame

For much of my life, I wore a heavy cloak of shame. I couldn’t shake it. Even if I was successful in ridding myself of it for a short period…


Mother was a drop-out, part 1

Here’s another one of Mom’s yarns. School days began at Sterling Elementary School. It was about two blocks from home if I went out the back way. (Be sure to…