Bob Kerr

bob kerr 11/06/2009

Bob Kerr: For this chef, the cooking is humbling
The woman wanted fish for breakfast. She got fish for breakfast.

11/04/2009

Bob Kerr: A chance to hear about Afghanistan from a man who’s been there
Jonathan Landay was part of one of the greatest “if only” newspaper stories of the last 10 years — as in “if only more people had read it.”

11/01/2009

Make room on the Clemency Coach for the fall ride
Veteran riders of the Clemency Coach, people who have doubled and tripled up on their public embarrassments, say the autumn ride is the best. There are the stunning colors, the crisp snap in the air, a sense of being in the very best place there is at this time of year.

10/30/2009

Bob Kerr: Taking people to places seldom seen
There was a lot of discussion in the Journal newsroom before and after the story on the women in a murder victim’s life appeared on page A7 of Thursday’s paper.

10/28/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: This really won’t bring an end to it
The Dallas Cowboys were the first professional football team to dress its cheerleaders as hookers.

10/25/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: A saner, simpler way to bringing an end to a marriage
They still liked each other. Maybe they still loved each other. But they couldn’t stay married. There were issues. Trust, or the lack of it, was among them.

10/23/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: The camera claims a place in the cure
Grace says her favorite photograph is the one showing her painting her hand blue. It is one of the 16 that her mother, Bekah Ham, took and put in a display she calls “Grace and Beauty.”

10/21/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: A better way to choose the Big Kahuna
It just seems dull, lacking in the kind of ritual we have every right to expect. It seems too mundane for the passions that bubble and boil in pursuit of the big hammer at the State House.

10/11/2009

Bob Kerr: In this contest, there are never any winners
Mickey Mouse got bounced from the birthday party. Actually, he never got in the door. He stood there, in full Disney, and was told he wasn’t wanted.

10/09/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: If we don’t feel this loss, we’re lost
The photographs have been in circulation for months, sent again and again into an uncertain reception on the Internet in the hopes of making people wake up, be aware, give a damn.