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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 →

This stack is a little thicker than 2019, but my DVD list is massive. The only fiction title in there is Self-Care. It is a satire made for those of us who are Extremely Online in certain parts of the … Continue reading →

October 9, 2020 What you see here is what I came across at the end of my only large vacation of the year. (I did not completely stop traveling. I wore a mask when I was around people.) Neither the … Continue reading →