College costs have risen much faster than inflation over the past 30 years, and as a result, a dilemma that many parents face is how to finance college and still save for their own retirement.

This is one of those weeks where I could write three columns about stuff going on in sports, but I’d rather meld them all together into a single offering.

Elwood Haynes (1857-1925) was a brilliant metallurgist and industrialist who developed an alloy he named Stellite, co-invented stainless steel, and in 1894 invented one of America’s first automobiles.

Plenty is happening among area high school athletics already. Moving parts include area athletes currently in college sports transferring, coaches moving to other programs or resigning, and even some high school students transferring.

The Sandwich Generation is defined as adults who have a living parent aged 65 or older and are either raising a child under 18 or supporting a grown child. Caring for both parents and children at the same time creates pressure on the ones who are left with those tasks, both in terms of time and money.

Thursday, May 7 will mark the 75th Annual National Day of Prayer in the United States of America.

The hardest season of the high school sports calendar is the spring season and it’s not even close.

During the height of the Chautauqua popularity at Winona Lake, a crowd favorite was Col. Herbert Petrie’s White Hussars brass ensemble. The White Hussars performed in Winona eight out of ten years, something of a record on the Chautauqua circuit. Petrie (1917-1994) was a World War II veteran who played first trumpet in the Army Band. He and his wife Mildred later founded the Wagon Wheel Playhouse in 1956, along with another couple.

I’m launching this weekend’s thoughts on the Ohio State Buckeyes popping up in the first round of the NFL Draft Thursday evening. Four of the first eleven draft picks were Buckeyes. Transfers-in among those notwithstanding, the program will reload again in 2026.

We are often asked about the trials and tribulations of the market, up one day and down the next. However, market difficulties pale in comparison to the pain of losing a loved one. It is always difficult to lose someone, especially a spouse. Few things compare to the difficulty of losing one’s spouse, and that difficulty is often compounded by the immense pressure to make decisions at precisely the hardest possible moment.

College sports has run amuck.

Homer Rodeheaver’s biography, titled “Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry” by Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo, begins with “Just before the start of World War I, Homer Rodeheaver reached the pinnacle of his national fame ... Rodeheaver played the trombone and led mass singing for the revivalist Billy Sunday, a gig that vaulted both men to national prominence.”

NBA attendance at its current levels is arguably at an all-time high, but my ambivalence during this season and the precious year’s campaign has resulted in my choice of not watching any NBA broadcast in its entirety.

There have been many improvements in the world since I graduated from Warsaw Community High School in 1987. Back in those days, we didn’t have the internet or cell phones or flat screen TVs. I got an Apple IIc computer for graduation as I headed off for Indiana University. The Apple Watch I wear today is literally 8,000 times more powerful.

Sunday was a day I won’t ever forget.

Tax Day is almost here. For a lot of families, that used to mean anxiety: scrambling for documents, bracing for a bill, or hoping the refund was enough to matter. This year is different.

Shortly after the Beyer brothers opened their Spring Fountain Park amusement and conference center to the public, groups from the Brethren church tradition began meeting annually in Winona Lake for conventions.

Spring Break last weekend launched in stride with the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball Final Four last weekend.

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Last week, Jaden Ivey was released by the Bulls for what the team described as conduct “detrimental to the team.”

Billy Sunday, the famed baseball evangelist who moved to Winona Lake in 1911, reached 100 million people in his evangelistic crusades. But during the first 20 years of the 1900s, Sunday was also an ardent crusader against alcohol.

Each Monday, Fox Sports’s Colin Cowherd has a segment at the start of his second hour named, “Where Colin Was Right, Where Colin Was Wrong.”

We all experience the death of friends and family members in our lives. In financial planning, we often find ourselves involved in the aftermath of those deaths. If the deceased planned their estate before their death, it usually makes it easier on the survivors.

In the book of Revelations even “no mores” are listed in relation to eternity and the new heaven and new earth coming one day.

Purdue’s basketball season ended with a West Regional Final loss to top-seeded Arizona Saturday night.