Brent’s Blog

There is a very specific kind of weather that only seems to happen this time of year. You wake up and it’s cold enough that you briefly consider turning on the heat. By lunch, you’re […]

Summer officially ends this week. At 8:05 Tuesday night, to be exact. That’s when the autumnal equinox arrives and, astronomically speaking, fall begins. Just like that. No vote. No two-week notice. No going-away party. One […]

Twenty-five years later, there are things about September 11, 2001, that remain remarkably clear. I had been the new morning show host on Hot Country B104 in Bloomington, Illinois, for less than six weeks. I […]

There are certain things that tell you what time of year it is without ever looking at a calendar. The first really cold morning tells you winter is coming. The first night you hear cicadas […]

There are some people you know are going to die someday, but you don’t really believe it. Dolly Parton was one of those people. Maybe it’s because she had already been famous for longer than […]

The Fourth of July is one of those holidays that can get pretty big if you let it. Two hundred and fifty years of America. Fireworks. Flags. Freedom. History. Big words. Big ideas. And all […]

I was looking for a roll of electrical tape the other day—which, in my house, means embarking on a minor archaeological dig through what is officially designated as the “junk drawer.” Every home has one. […]

I took a hike Sunday afternoon at Versailles State Park. That sentence doesn’t sound like much by itself. People hike at state parks all the time. They walk a few miles, look at the trees, […]

Father’s Day has a way of sneaking up on us. It shows up every June with the usual reminders: buy a card, make a call, maybe fire up the grill, maybe pretend Dad really does […]

Brent’s Blog Something Is Happening Here There are days when you can feel a place moving forward. Not in some abstract, chamber-of-commerce-brochure kind of way. I mean you can actually stand there, look around, see […]

Column: Camp Woodsmoke Roar and Explore 5K, June 13 2026 A Lions Club gem tucked in the hills of northern Decatur County is asking all of southeastern Indiana to come run, walk, ruck — or […]

There’s a Sunday every year that I refuse to miss. Doesn’t matter what’s on the calendar, what the weather is doing, or what anyone else has planned. The last Sunday in May is spoken for. […]