I wrote the following for my weekly column. Dashed this off in roughly an hour so it’s fairly barebones as an obit. When pressed to name a song that best epitomizes what I love in a piece of popular music, it’s no contest, it’s “Be My Baby” by The Ronettes. …

I was surprised at how emotional Andrew Luck’s retirement made me. I’m more interested in the NBA these days. I think there are several reasons for this. For one, I share a first name, birth year and current home city with him. I got rejected from Stanford. He played QB…

I left my newspaper job back in January due to the murder of my mother. I try to keep up with my old paper, keeping an eye on stories they publish while keeping my eye out for stories to feed them. One tradition at paper is publishing letters to the…

It wasn't until my mother was murdered that I fully realized how much she was connected to the Beatles and my memories of them. Growing up, I thought of them as more of my band than hers. An absurd notion considering she was alive during their heyday and I arrived…

The motorcycle accident — it’s a pivotal moment in the life and career of Bob Dylan. As with all things Dylan, good luck nailing down the truth or the exact details. …

There are several quotes I’ve thought of a lot since the first day of the year when my entire world changed. “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” It’s only the end of February but it feels like I’ve lived years in the span…

1968: Back to the Basics The Byrds were one of the most influential groups of the 1960s. They influenced the direction of their contemporaries as well as bands that came after. The Byrds are best known as one of the foundational groups of folk-rock. It’s difficult to think of that…

MORGAN COUNTY — What started out as an overdose investigation evolved into something far more last weekend, when the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men and the Morgan County Humane Society (MCHS) seized 140 animals from a Morgan County home just south of Stilesville. Late last Friday evening, Morgan…

It’s been an interesting few months for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Back in August the Twitter account @Infographic_KSA tweeted an image that seemed to be threatening Canada with a 9/11-style attack. The graphic featured an Air Canada jet flying towards the CN Tower in the Toronto Skyline. “Sticking one’s…