I have been blessed with many cousins.
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Dear Editor,
The fifth Judicial Court of McPherson County, Spink County, Edmunds County, South Dakota, has offered Iowans a temporary reprieve by refusing to allow private industry to use public domain to claim land for CO2 pipeline. We need to make this a permanent reprieve by pressuring Gov. Kim...
I have never been able to watch scary movies.
My mother will remind you (if she gets the chance) that I can’t even watch embarrassing television programs, which is, frankly, embarrassing. I would watch that terrible moment when Lucy was about to get caught doing something embarrassing by her...
It’s the best time of year for dogs.
I don’t have a dog. I have a cat—as of this year. His name is Felix, and he came from Mexico. When we adopted him, he was skinny and timid after living on the streets for two years. Now, he is plump and playful, with a luxurious coat and an entitled attitude...
I’ve been waiting a long time for my book, “Loon Point,” to sell.
If I’m honest, it hasn’t been that long. It’s been five months, and that seems like a long time. But in the publishing world, that is the blink of an eye.
I talk to my old friend, Andrew, all the time about trying to get this book...
I have been blessed with many cousins.
My two cousins closest in age were both boys, Brian and Dane. We went camping and hiking together and stayed in the cabin up north. We all remember the day we made tea from red sumac berries, and—after we’d drunk about a gallon each—my Uncle Mike told us, “...
Dear Editor,
Iowa students will soon plunge into classes by the end of August. Fall 2024 will be the first year Iowa teachers are allowed to carry firearms in schools, provided they obtain a professional permit to carry weapons if employed by a school district, private school, or college that...
“Stone Soup”
One of my favorite stories as a child was “Stone Soup.”
I don’t know if you know it or not. It’s an old European folktale, and there are a lot of variations, but in most of them two soldiers come into a town during a war. They ask for food, and everyone tells them they have nothing...
The conservative-oriented Wall Street Journal conducted a survey (July 5-9) of 68 professional economists, business forecasters and Wall Street gurus seeking their insight on America’s economic future. The results do not bode well should Donald Trump become our 47th president.
The survey’s results...
“Climbing the Stairs”
I told my husband, Peter, when he first announced the idea, that I thought it was dumb.
I probably didn’t say “dumb,” because I try to be nicer than that. But I let him know that I thought his idea of getting exercise by climbing stairs in the stairwell was, well, kind of...
Before I voted for the Farm Bill—which passed out of the House Agriculture Committee in May—I held many town halls with farmers and producers as part of my 36 County Tour and Feenstra Agriculture Tour to ensure that the priorities of our agricultural community were included in this vital...
