Opinion & Columns

My mother insisted I know how to read music even if I couldn’t perform it, and maybe that was good enough.

My biggest worry about retirement isn’t how I’ll pay for it, but whether I should even do it. We’ve all heard stories about guys who retired and five minutes later dropped dead.

First-place categories for IM stories included Medical, Business, and Sports reporting, as well as Column and Features writing.

An oral history of the funniest guy ever to call Indy home.

I needed air. I felt like my Aunt Rose, who, during bouts of heart failure, would venture out onto her condo balcony to catch her breath.

Some people shouldn’t take up religion, and you know the kind of people I mean—folks who are a few biscuits short of a breakfast.

You can’t not have an opinion about Indiana Senate Bill 101.

More than 100 judges from the likes of Vanity Fair, ESPN the Magazine, and The New Yorker picked the finalists.

In the neighborhoods trending upward, people care deeply about where they live.

The prospect of being confined to a vehicle worried me far less than the thought of listening to Philosophy and Intellectual History, Volume 2 for 18 hours.

As I write this, my wife and I are expecting our first grandchild, Madeline. The level of excitement, as you can imagine, is high.

Some suggestions for Barack Obama’s Indianapolis meal plans.

Sometimes you have to live in a house for a while before she trusts you enough to reveal her secrets.

If kids knew what to do, they’d be adults. It’s our job to turn them into the latter.

Add in the din of people clacking away on computer keyboards and chatting on their cell phones, and one starts to see why libraries are as noisy as a 5-year-old’s birthday party.