FINAL ITEM ON WISH LIST
Columnist Bob Bridge It’s been termed a Bucket List. These are wishes you aspire to come true prior to your departure to the great...
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Oct 42 min
GOOD GOLLY, MISS MOLLY!
COMMENTARY Bob Bridge Throughout the years I’ve written much about my two beautiful bassets, Brooke Lynn Bridge and Ralph Waldo...
Bob Bridge
Sep 262 min
LIKE A DUCK TO WATER
Columnist Bob Bridge “Water is the driving force of all nature.“ - Leonardo da Vinci There’s something about bodies of water that are...
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Sep 192 min
GIFT BOOK A REAL GIFT
Columnist Bob Bridge I’m here to inform you about my new book and encourage you to purchase it. It is titled: “Stories of Christmas...
Bob Bridge
Sep 122 min
A SALMON TACO NEW GO-TO GRUB
Columnist Bob Bridge My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” - Orson...
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Sep 61 min
WORTHY OF A SECOND LOOK
Columnist Bob Bridge ”The best thing in life to hold onto is each other.” - Audrey Hepburn I have been prescribed a new medication, one...
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Aug 222 min
THIS IS NOT A POPULARITY COMPETITION
Columnist Bob Bridge “Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't...
Bob Bridge
Aug 152 min
SHED WORRIES; TAME TONGUE; VOICE KINDNESS
Columnist Bob Bridge Relatively speaking, I’m an old man. There are pros and cons to such a distinction. For example, I’m definitely not...
Bob Bridge
Aug 82 min
SPENCER GOOD FOR COMMUNITY
Columnist Bob Bridge A few decades ago I was asked to host a new daily morning show to air on Bedford’s WBIW radio station. It sounded...
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Aug 12 min
RALPH, THE GIANT COMMUNITY GUY
By Columnist Bob Bridge The image of physically diminutive Ralph Anderson standing aside Purdue’s towering Zach Edey inside Mackey Arena...
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Jul 261 min
HOUSE DIVIDED
Columnist Bob Bridge ”A house divided against itself cannot stand.“ - Abraham Lincoln Slavery was the divisive issue when Abraham Lincoln...
Bob Bridge
Jul 182 min
DESPERATELY SEEKING ATTENTION
Columnist Bob Bridge ”All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.” - Kimberly Giles Mass shootings were not...
Bedford Online
Jul 112 min
THE BEST OF TIMES
Columnist Bob Bridge In his classic tome “Tale of Two Cities” Dickens suggested, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”...
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Jun 272 min
WHAT HAPPENED TO KIDS, PUPPIES?
By Columnist Bob Bridge Am I woke? The unvarnished truth? I misplaced my alarm clock long ago. No, I am neither in harmony nor attuned to...
Bob Bridge
Jun 202 min
WILLIE AND J.T. “ICONS”
By Columnist Bob Bridge Bucket lists include items you intend to check off before you expire. Really, it is as simple as that. Time is...
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Jun 132 min
Bacon Strips My Favorite Tender Mercy
By Columnist Bob Bridge I am not the King of Edgewood nor would I harbor the audacity to claim such a distinction. Clearly, that mighty...
Bob Bridge
Jun 62 min
TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
Columnist Bob B. Bridge I’ve been pondering if an end to the turbulence our society has experienced in recent years is finally drawing...
Bob Bridge
May 301 min
FAREWELL, BILLY RAINES
By Bob Bridge, Columnist Billy Raines was an independent individual, a somewhat solitary soul. Though Paul Anka’s song “My Way”...
Bob Bridge
May 232 min
NOT A SHEEP IN THE HERD
By Bob Bridge, Columnist ”The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” -...