I've been reading about Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie, Calvinist Christians in Holland who believed in giving aid and shelter to the Jews during World War II. For their efforts they …
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 …
On a late summer afternoon in Bloomfield 40 years ago, the people of Iowa learned about an unofficial government principle we have seen repeated in recent weeks.Although this has played out in …
One of my former Creative Writing students, Aimee Gauley (by golly) from Ft. Madison, told me that I needed to come to Ft. Madison and watch this movie, “Intent Unknown” being filmed. …
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 …
Every few months, someone is killed or injured by police somewhere in the United States under circumstances that lead to inevitable questions about what exactly occurred.Typically, answers come when …
I saw the advertisement for the fox call in an old Outdoor Life magazine. A neighbor gave me all his old Outdoor Life and Field and Stream magazines, and I devoured them like candy. I was …
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 …
My wife's brother-in-law, Ron, in his mid-seventies, is a good Christian. He and his wife Becky live in Liberty, Missouri, which is a suburb of Kansas City (go Chiefs!). Ron's a friendly …
“Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain”. The Iowa motto is written in white letters on the blue streamers being carried in the beak of an eagle on the Iowa flag. Though …
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 …
