Let this week’s Beside the Point serve as an open greeting card to all Moms on Mom’s Day. As your children, and more pointedly, as your sons, we know we were a pain in the ass. …
Have you ever read a legislative bill? I’m a very humble person, but when I sit down to read something, I have a pretty decent ability to comprehend things. At least I did. I’m getting …
There’s something that’s lingering from last week’s news cycle. It was a busy cycle with news of the shared athletic programs being salvaged between Fort Madison High School and …
Prom. It’s that time of year and it means following well-dressed students around southeast Iowa and watching the boys get frustrated with hours and hours of photos, while the girls get …
My intentions were to start the week’s edition of Beside the Point this way… DING… DING… I was ready to go twelve full rounds on the …
Every day it seems I haggle with society. I’m extremely frustrated with the lack of accountability in people. I made a couple trips through a big box store in the area several times over …
In November, Fort Madison Community School District officials notified Holy Trinity Catholic’s system that they would be dropping them from the football program. The move is disappointing …
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 …
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 …
