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 …
It's been an interesting past several days. The wife went to Nawlins with the daughter for about six days for a jazz festival. In that time I've written a bunch of …
Life is the prize. Sometimes we ask ourselves, unfortunate as it may seem, why we struggle through this ride, especially when we get punched in the stomach throughout life. …
I wanted to write this week about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' spitting match with Disney World. A move that could backfire on the 2024 presidential candidate as 77,000 employees and the largest …
The buds are out again on the sugar maple out my front window. It's a stunning fall production that I love for about two weeks and then hate for two hours as I clean up the leaves. My parakeets, …
They say it's not good juju to talk about your competition, but I don't give two shakes about that. I've sat side by side with a curly-haired, skinny guy named Chris Faulkner for the …
Close to 300 animals were taken from a home in rural Lee County over the last several weeks. Three hundred animals. At one point I had three cats at the same time and it …
Bohannon didn't call glass on that 23-footer, but that didn't keep me from backwards somersaulting on the floor when it went down giving the Hawks a win over Indiana in the Big Ten Championship …
A good portion of my morning was spent writing replies on Facebook to people who are miffed at the rising price of gas. I usually don't respond to much on Facebook because, well....I …
We just went through an emotional reaction to the Back the Blue law and the byproducts of that law that increased the Lee County Sheriff's wages 45%, which in turn spawned a 10% across the board …
Making the trip to Des Moines for the annual state wrestling meet is typically an up and down of epic proportions. As media, we get tucked into a corner room on the floor level of …
