Brent’s Blog

It always catches you off guard. You’re not having a bad day. Nothing dramatic just happened. You’re not even in a particularly reflective mood. And then a song comes on — and something shifts. Not […]

When I was a kid, Sunday afternoons had a rhythm to them. Church in the morning, a big lunch afterward, and then—if the weather was decent—my dad would look at my mom and say, “Want […]

Here’s what nobody tells you about winter in Southeastern Indiana: it’s not the snow that gets you. It’s the compounding. One extra trip to the store because you forgot something and nobody wants to go […]

If you grew up around here, you don’t have to say much more than “the Blizzard of ’78” and people immediately get that look. It’s not just that it snowed. It’s that the world stopped […]

(Noblesville, IN) – John Mellencamp is coming home again this summer. That sentence should feel simple in Indiana. Comfortable, even. Like something you’d hear from a buddy leaning on a tailgate in a parking lot […]

I saw that American Legion Post 452, New Alsace, is having a Euchre Tournament this Sunday.  You can get all the details HERE. That got me thinking about the game.  And I have a theory […]

As the decorations come down and the last of the holiday leftovers disappear, reality is starting to arrive in mailboxes across Southeastern Indiana — in the form of credit card bills. After weeks of gift […]

Alright, quick moment of Indianapolis nostalgia here.  If you ever spent time downtown in the mid-Nineties, odds are you walked through Circle Centre Mall. When that place opened back in 1995, it was the spot […]

Even as many schools have moved into modern gyms, the region still has places where basketball memories seem baked into the brick and bleachers — older auditoriums, former school gyms, and community floors that once […]

Today is National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day. Which means that somewhere right now, a perfectly reasonable adult is wearing a sweater with blinking lights, a reindeer doing something questionable, or a snowman that absolutely didn’t […]