Hoosier Happenings

Wednesday, I took my travel companion on its last trip, from which it didn't come home with me. I took it for a drive the day before, to...

  I have an affinity for driving two-lane highways. Avoiding interstates comes at a cost, of course. But the rewards of captured views, smal...

  I find myself in Southern Indiana on a regular enough occasion that a few years ago, I started to line up site visits over the course of a...

  If someone had told me when I was sitting in my business law classes in college that one day I’d find myself wading a stream to get good p...

  I sought out a backroad short cut once on a way to my cousins’ house in Van Buren many years ago. Highway 19 was my link between Rochester...

It wasn’t long after I got my driver’s license that I started exploring every single last back country road. We were never more than a two-v...

A year ago I considered diving into the world of podcasts with a folksy-Hoosier travel sort of theme. I have about a dozen stories written a...

A few months ago, I sat down with a new friend who has a real thirst for history as I do. Not long into our conversation, he mentioned how h...

Department of Health and Human Services, 1986 My good friend and me with Bill Gee, intern Milan Petrovik, and Secretary Bowen I had a phone ...

As a historian, I've been asked my thoughts on statues being toppled. Usually one word comes to mind: conflicted. Watching the events of...

I don't typically write in poetry, like rarely, and anyone who has read the few lines I've written, also knows what follows is not m...