I sat about a month ago with Mark Cartwright in the MPR room at Fort Madison High School.I saw a man tired... a retired veteran who spends most of his time at the high school athletic facilities …

I want to write about sports today. I really do. Fall sports are just days away from official practices. Anticipation is palpable for another HTC run at state volleyball, the next-man-in …

Surprise, surprise.Exxon reported record profit sales for the past quarter. According to CNN Exxon made $2,254 per second over the past quarter.That's per second.President Biden waived off recession …

I had planned on writing today's piece on a baseball player named Juan Soto who last week turned down $441 million to play baseball for the next 15 years in Washington. I just get around  …

 I did a time warp this weekend. Seemed like everything on the radio was 80's hair band. I even went to Putt-A-Round and played around and ate an ice cream. I came home and watched Black …

As most are aware Lee and I made a hot dash to Houston basically for a 4th of July party. Kinda crazy, but sometimes life calls for a little crazy. I packed up the work laptops and made phone …

I love a blank computer screen... and I hate it at the same time. On one hand it's full of promise and challenge, on the other hand is frustration and impatience. There …

I'm not a fan of getting older. I know the old saying that it's better than the alternative. I think somewhere deep in the recesses of my mind I thought I might be …

Guns. Boy, I don't know. I'm torn on the social discussion, as guns are almost like the third rail. You start talking gun control and you can really create some …

There's something about being back at home after a weekend away. I don't know if it's just age (yep!) or expanding the work week for a full weekend at Drake, but there's something …

I just don't get it. If someone would have asked me a month ago if I thought Fort Madison could pull off being "crunchy", I would have thought they were talking about its age or maybe …