Tim Moriarty wrote more than 500 Sunday columns over a 12-year period for several newspapers while serving as an English teacher and journalism professor. Each column is designed to encourage you to reflect, identify with and in some cases, shed a tear or brighten your day. From the Heartland, SOME SMILES, SOME TEARS, is written from his heart, often in first person, with themes that we deal with everyday within ourselves, our family, our friends and our community.