Brent’s Blog

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 […]

Today I mark the completion of another trip around the sun.  And it’s got me feeling a little reflective. Particularly about how my perspective has changed in the last couple of decades… When I was […]

Every year, it seems like the country divides into two camps: the folks who want the Christmas tree up the minute the Halloween candy bowl is empty, and the folks who believe the lights shouldn’t […]

Yes, It’s Real, and No, I Didn’t Make It Up Just to Get Out of Doing the Dishes. International Men’s Day has actually been around longer than most people realize. It began in 1992, when […]