Opinion & Columns

When you live in close quarters, you may have no more between you and your neighbors than some drywall.

Vonnegut isn’t all Indiana has to offer.

“In this polarized age, I don’t suspect a Republican or Democrat would lend the other a hand, let alone a printing press. But it was different back then, before talk radio gave the least stable among us a microphone.”

When I was this magazine’s managing editor, the editor-in-chief asked—nay, required—that I parrot the book ‘The Official Preppy Handbook,’ localizing the author’s directives. I wrote “Indy’s Guide to Prep” in 1981.

Everyone should be a teacher for one year to know what ingratitude feels like.

The truth is, I need them as much as they need me, which is why the search continues.

We could save ourselves a lot of trouble if we sent children outside barefoot, in a field of clover, while eating a PB&J, like parents did when I was a runt.

No offense to our neighbors in Mexico or Chile, but I don’t want their produce, or anything grown upside-down in a hothouse. I want Mom’s.

“While I’m clearing the air, I’ll add that their gay marriage harmed my traditional marriage exactly zero percent.”

I seem to like John Mellencamp more than native Hoosiers do—or at least have a much less complicated relationship with him.

Robert Frost famously said everything he learned about life could be summed up in three words: “It goes on.” This is the season of the next generation—and the next after that.

I’ve buried quite a few stinkers these past 31 years, but you would never have known it from their funerals.

So far, the only downside to diabetes is not being able to eat Cinnabons at the airport.

This past winter, our attic became a haven for flying squirrels. These small tree-dwellers, a protected species in Indiana, banged around over our heads for nearly a week before we gave up and called a wildlife-management organization.

Who can blame the TV late-night legend and native Hoosier for sticking around longer than he intended? It’s hard to say goodbye to family.