“It still hurts when I see couples together” Trigger warning: This story contains content about suicide. The death of Eleanor’s first husband, the father of her two children, was front page news — he was murdered, found shot execution-style in his real estate office in what had the hallmarks of…

“If I hadn’t been a self-centered jackass, I wouldn’t be divorced.” — Gabe, 43, is twice divorced. He and Amy married when he was 19 and she 23. They had their first son a year later. “We had three kids, and were married for 17 years,” Gabe says. “I left her to be with another woman. “I had become cold-hearted, and felt…

“The only mystery is why I bought it!” — I can’t stop reading 1-star book reviews on Amazon. Some are hilarious (“I was looking for a good post-apocalypse non-zombie book. This wasn’t it.”) and others downright mean (“My first time with this author, and it will probably be my last if this disjointed drivel is anything to go by.”) …

How much are you willing to spend? — A friend used to tease us about our attachment to our cat, who was like a child to us, up to the point when we actually had children. “Come on, he’d say. “For ten thousand dollars, would you eat Walter?” My husband would simply point out that he’d never seen…

Or, why I needed a copy of my marriage license to get my mother a government-issued photo ID — How strict is Indiana’s “strict” voter identification law? I’ll skip straight to the punchline: I needed a copy of MY marriage license to get my elderly, blind mother an Indiana voter identification card. When the Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s SecureID law in 2008, Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the…

If you do that ONE MORE TIME… Maybe you’ve heard the term “misophonia.” It’s an intense, negative reaction, like disgust or hatred, to certain sounds or visual cues. Like other people chewing. Or slurping, sniffling, throat clearing, or loud breathing. I’ve never noticed that people chewing bothers me much, but…

…where to start? Social media can be a harmless and easy way to keep track of friends, family and news. It can also be addictive and invasive and produce an archive of bad behavior that can damage relationships or make it hard to get a new job. …

Only God can make a preacher: The life story of Rev. F.D. Johnson SOUTH BEND — Rev. Fred D. Johnson, a pastor for 35 years and a two-time recipient of keys to the city of South Bend, died Monday. He was 86. …

…and a crank caller saved my life — When I got divorced — after nearly thirty years of marriage — it was a little hard to explain. When I was in a good mood, I’d make light of it. It’s like the joke my father used to tell, I’d say, about the little boy who didn’t speak a…