My husband, Peter, told me about the unlikely friendship.
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My husband, Peter, told me about the unlikely friendship.
When we stay in Mexico, Peter walks the same route up to the environmental preserve every day. It’s a steep climb to the park, which is filled with wildlife and rare plants. Because Peter walks the same streets daily, he has gotten to...
Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 victory was decisive. Period. The margin of votes he received from women shocked virtually everyone, especially since his opponent, Kamala Harris, tried to break the glass ceiling.
On Nov. 6, I reached out to women across America and asked for their reaction – in two...
“I don’t know many words about teeth,” I told the dentist.
Since my husband, Peter, and I spend time in Mexico, it makes sense to get dental work done while we’re here, and I had been putting off going to the dentist. I knew I needed to get work done where my gums had receded, and the enamel no...
The results from Nov. 5’s presidential election revealed Donald Trump received about 3.5 million more votes than Kamala Harris and he captured over 300 electoral college votes to become America’s 47th president. As compared to Donald Trump’s 2016 and 2020 bid for president, the votes secured...
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“Go Navy! Beat Army!” We recited that phrase every day, for four years at the U.S. Naval Academy. Only one game really matters each year—America’s Game, Army Navy football. Midshipmen/Cadets stand cheering with everything they have to support their team. The football team fights until...
“There will be monks here tomorrow morning,” is what I figured Jorge was telling me. In Spanish, “monks” sounds like “monkeys” in English. But I was pretty sure we were not having monkeys over for breakfast.
Jorge is my landlord here in Mexico, and he speaks only Spanish to me. He will speak...
So I’m doing a show after all.
The problem with me (and I might not be alone in this) is that I have a hard time imagining anything between close to perfect and nothing at all.
I’d been planning to do a first show featuring material from my columns, and it was overwhelming. A fully realized...
I am quick to criticize other people’s luxuries.
“Buying a latte every day?” I say. “What a waste!”
But, of course, I have Peter making me coffee, and I can have it exactly the way I like it. (Lots of milk, not too much coffee.)
I think sailboats and horses are crazy expensive, but campers and...
Over the weekend, Felix met his three other mothers.
Felix is our cat, and we adopted him from Mexico. We are now back in Mexico for the first time since we adopted him and, of course, Felix is with us.
When my husband, Peter, and I first discussed adopting a cat, I had in mind some needy...
Iowans love our public schools and we all see them as the heart of our communities. We take pride in the teachers, school staff, and administrators for the tireless effort they put in to prepare our kids for the future.
Every morning when I dropped my two kids off at school, I was proud to know...
