Opinion

Every now and then I have a conversation as part of this job that sets me back just a bit. I had one of those conversations on Friday with a 16-year-old girl whose life was flipped upside down 10 …

It’s been a while since I’ve had kids in the house. My brother is up from Florida visiting and checking in on the family. It’s nice to have an extra body around with mom’s …

I baled hay once as a teen where the farmer used a hay trolley to lift and convey the bales into the barn instead of an elevator.  It worked pretty slick.  The farmer used a little Ford …

One of the things I hate the most, but one of the most necessary anymore, is travel. I had plans to fly to New York City on Thursday, but some heavy medical events kept me from getting on a plane …

Sue and I were in Washington, Iowa, last month. The purpose for our trip was a high school graduation. It was a special occasion because the people we joined with in honoring young Cameron, the newly …

How do you describe an artist? You talk about their art. Well, what if the artist has more than one art form as most artists do? You talk about each of their art forms as defining part of the artist, …

We’re all thinking about it, but we're not sure anyone’s talking about it. So we'll talk about it here. A building collapsed in Davenport this week and lives were lost. Still more are yet …

Strange year.  My first clue as to just how strange '23 was going to be was when our McIntosh Apple Tree didn't bloom.  Ginnie and I have lived on the Empty Nest Farm going on eight years …

Courage. It’s hard enough to live in this world for even a couple decades, and right now, it’s probably as hard as it's ever been. Saturday I was doing laundry and packing a bag …

Rich Seberg attended the first Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant in 1950.  He was born in July of that year and his mother took him in a basket and stowed the basket under a table.  He …

I rarely get out to cover college sports. Our staff at Pen City Current isn’t built for it and I’m not a fan of “dabbling” here and there. There’s too much emotion in …

It was hot and muggy, with temperatures in the low nineties in Missouri (making it misery) and high eighties in Iowa—unusually hot for early May.  Ginnie and I had been in Liberty, …

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