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Tonight, the No. 12 North Tama volleyball team faces No. 4 Lisbon in Van Horne. At stake is either North Tama’s third state volleyball appearance in six years, or Lisbon’s first ever. Stories: North Tama Telegraph (covering the regional semifinal … Continue reading →

My brother is getting a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology at Iowa State University. My brother’s job does not involve anything in genetics, development, or cell biology, but he majored in it, so … Continue reading →

The Verge:  Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many … Continue reading →

While looking through old blog posts related to the Iowa State Fair I noticed that a link I had in one of them had 404’d. The band Redhead Express, a four-sister act I happened to catch in 2018, disbanded the … Continue reading →

Due to my iMac’s demise, I now have to use Apple’s Photos application, which replaced iPhoto. Apple threw iPhoto to the curb to the point it disabled the app after a certain OS version, and the Places function had not … Continue reading →

Niland’s Cafe in Colo, a classic feature along the Lincoln Highway, has reopened for the second time in three years. The cafe closed in late 2018, then reopened in 2019, then closed again in mid-2020. Earlier this month it came … Continue reading →

August 18, 2020: Flattened corn near Keystone, Benton County. Last year’s derecho sowed the seeds of a weed that is Roundup Ready, extremely visible, and scattered across most of Iowa. Volunteer corn is going to be all around this season, … Continue reading →

I must voice support for my millennial sisters who have spent much of this year having fashion choices heckled by the youth of Generation Z who wouldn’t know a pair of JNCOs if it walked up and said howdy. We shall not … Continue reading →

June 13, 2011: Route 66 Visitors Center at the Joliet Area Historical Museum, in a city I will not be visiting this summer. The 2021 Lincoln Highway Association conference, which was going to be in Joliet after the 2020 conference set … Continue reading →

I have learned the hard way that a car battery’s fifth winter, record-breaking cold, and working from home (last errand run: Jan. 30) do not mix. July 9, 2018: Literally a hundred-degree difference from Friday night’s low. July 20, 2019: … Continue reading →