Category: Indiana Writers Group

by Leo Morris We’re about to have our first weekly bridge game after a year-long hiatus, and I admit to some trepidation. We’re old geezers, so we will gather with COVID-vaccination protection, but our pandemic overlords have insisted that we stay masked and do social distancing until the Earth’s core cools or the Sun explodes,…

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE public policy meets an absolute, that is, where no compromise is possible between two conflicting options. Such is the case now with law enforcement in Indiana’s metropolitan cities. City councils in the next few years will have to make a hard choice. Yes, politicians hate that but it cannot be…

by Mark Franke I watched my first baseball spring training game last Sunday and was immediately transported back into the mists of memory, that of a young boy at the first sign of spring heading outside with his glove, baseball and pitchback contraption. First, a word about that pitchback. It was a metal frame with…

by Leo Morris I will defend myself. I do not claim that as a “right.” I merely state it as a fact. It is a biological imperative – is it not? – for an individual to decline to submit meekly to the murderous intent of others. To that end, I possess a license to carry…

by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. During the years I taught ethics at Butler University, I asked my students what word they heard most. The word? Diversity. I also asked them what their parents said to them when they did something stupid with a bunch of friends. I requested they finish this sentence: “If your friends jumped…

by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. Personal advice like, “Don’t buy a house costing more than three times your annual salary” or “Mortgage payments should be no larger than a quarter of your take home monthly income,” are useful. In these contentious times, wouldn’t it be great if Americans, regardless of political persuasion, could adopt a…

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by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. The South Bend Tribune reported on a horror in Indianapolis that began with an argument that plays out in nearly every American family with a teenager: a battle over staying out too late (“Police: ‘I love you’ were father’s last words.”) It appears that an angry teen, in trouble for leaving the…

by Leo Morris Profound apologies to my brother. It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote of hating him for basking in 70-something sunshine in Texas while hapless Hoosiers were shoveling through several inches of snow and preparing for sub-zero temperatures. Mere days after my outburst, the Lone Star State was slammed…

by Richard Moss, M.D. When one ponders the treachery of Republicans in the aftermath of the recent stolen election, one wonders what purpose they serve? It was dormant Republican-controlled state legislatures in many of the “battleground” states, after all, that allowed the changes in election law, perpetrated by scurrilous Democrats and their lawyers that led to the…