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Quarterbacks And Leadership
We are witnessing an end to an era of leadership. The NFL quarterbacks we’ve been watching for the past two decades are retiring. There was valiant leader here in Indiana named Peyton Manning, who in February 2007 led the Indianapolis Colts to their lone Super Bowl title. Manning defined leadership on the field and in…
Read MoreLip Smacking Column
Valentine’s Day stresses me out. I never know what to buy for my wife. The worst part is looking for the perfect card. I’ve lurked on the holiday aisle at the Hallmark store, waiting until some guy about my age laughed at a particular punch line. If there was another one of those cards in…
Read MoreSuper Boilermakers In The Super Bowl: The Story of Purdue Football In The Big Game
By late Sunday night, either Ricardo Allen and Markus Bailey of the Cincinnati Bengals or Brycen Hopkins of the Los Angeles Rams will become the latest Purdue football alumni to earn a Super Bowl ring. A former Boilermaker has been on the Super Bowl-winning team 15 of the last 20 years, most recently with linebacker…
Read MoreNew Hyperion Players Theater To Open Tonight With First Play
There’s a new theater in Hamilton County, and it’s called the Hyperion Players. It’s a dream come true for Noblesville’s Ian Hauer and his childhood friend, Adam Fike, who created the theatrical group, which will have its first stage production opening tonight. “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, will be on stage for three performances,…
Read MoreTimmons Updates This, That & ‘Tuther
Notes found scribbled on the back of an EKG printout . . . * * * In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, thank you, thank you, thank you! In my wildest dreams I never imagined hearing from so many of you. There have literally been hundreds of messages – and heck, most of them…
Read MoreNoblesville’s Phyllis Davis loved playing her music
Phyllis Davis was a tradition at the Hamilton County 4-H Fair Queen Pageant and Fashion Revue for more than 50 years. We could always count on seeing her smiling face as she was playing the piano. The Noblesville woman never used any sheet music but played the songs by heart. “I’ve loved it, and the…
Read MoreSnow Buddies Business
Ah, alas, the first big snowfall of the year. I love standing on my deck in the tranquil dawning of a new snowstorm, watching the horizontal white blur layer the yard in its downy nuzzle. The quietude of the swirling milky crystals is dis-turbed solely by the howling wind, whose turbulence kicks snow into big…
Read MoreRevisiting R. C. Foland, Lucy Washington And The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic
I’ve got some reader feedback to catch up on! After the column about R. C. (Roland) Foland’s Polar Bear activities ran, Marilyn Conner and Larry Cloud both brought up local attorney Arvin Foland, who died just a few years ago. Marilyn wondered if the two men were related. They were — Arvin was R. C.…
Read MoreGrowing Same As U Blessed With Unexpected Opportunity
Jennifer Sell wakes up every day, and she knows why she does what she does and for whom. It will soon be three years since she started the not-for-profit, Same As U, which came about because the mom wanted to create a place where people with developmental disabilities — including her daughter, Jennifer, born with…
Read MoreOut Of The Jungle
In my dream, the jungle was thick and dark. There was a river running through it and I was on a small raft, careening down it. The current was flowing fast in the center and I wanted to steer closer to the banks, but the jungle was filled with monsters—prehistoric creatures that roared when they…
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