Instincts. The innate, quick, natural reaction to a stimulus. Training and repetition helps develop those reactions. It’s the repetition that’s beginning to bother me. Every day we …
There’s something permanent about a sun kissing the Gulf of Mexico on a not-so-warm spring evening. All you can see is surf, and the stretch of the sun’s reflection off the gray water …
I'm a jynx. I overreact. I get mad at simple things. In the middle of Saturday's 87 sporting events I had to cover, the Vikings were playing a rare Saturday regular season affair. I wasn't …
Life is tough enough. It’s good to have partnerships. In my other life, I write grants for Lee County and we’ve had some success saving taxpayer money on the Lee County Health …
This world spins me around a lot - not just at the roughly 1,000 mph of physically spinning, although the thought of that gives me vertigo, but at a socially dizzying pace. Journalism in a town of …
What's on my mind this week? Kelsey Ray Vandenberg. This Monday, February 20, will be the third year to not have cake, not go to Cheddars or Steak 'N Shake, or eat her undertenderized beef …
Last Monday I would have sworn I was in a black and white live episode of the Twilight Zone watching the Lee County Board of Supervisors. If you haven’t been watching (or reading!) shame on …
Driving back from the Xtreme Arena Thursday night after watching a bunch of girls fighting on mats, I was a bit bored. When I’m bored, I think of weird things. Cheez-Its usually. I decided …
Sometimes life brings you gifts - a dream, a spouse, a friend...and sometimes it just punches you in the face. People in Fort Madison see me routinely with a backpack and a camera standing on the …
I like chess. You have to get your butt kicked before you get any good, and it helps define your ability to see the whole board. I've been naive a good portion of my life. Always wanting to be …
Something funny kind of fell off the racks in the Missouri legislature this week. A woman moved to clarify the Legislature's dress code by pointing out that women should be wearing jackets …
We saw Patrick McCaffery step away from the Hawkeye basketball team to get some emotional grounding in his personal life. We saw the same thing from Naomi Osaka several years ago in the world of …
