Category: Life
Silent Night by Chewbacca
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Do you want to get into the Christmas spirit?
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And you thought your Thanksgiving was busy!
Woman breaks fingers, delivers a baby, and puts Thanksgiving dinner on the table
Remember the Cabbage Patch Craze?
Watch this video on YouTube Do you remember the Cabbage Patch phenomena from 1983? Whenever it is brought up, the first thing I remember is the scenes from this footage. The store clerk with the baseball bat, trying to keep the rabid shoppers from overrunning the store. The second thing…
Stop Smoking Day
I had my last cigarette five years ago today. Even now, there are times when I have a craving . And when I do, I remind myself that I am no longer a smoker. That isn’t who I am anymore . Sounds overly simple, doesn’t it? No looking at how…
What’s So Civil about War Anyway?
My good friend, and Civil War era historian, David Connon, will be giving a number of presentations around Iowa, then heading to Milwaukee and Chicago in the next two weeks. I have listened to his presentation of “Josiah Bushnell Grinnell and the Iowa Underground Railroad” before and I came away…
No, I didn’t win Mick Jones’ Guitar
Watch this video on YouTube In 2008, Ben, Zach (neighborhood kid) and I competed for the grand price of Mick Jones’ guitar after the Foreigner concert in Hawaii on New Year’s Eve. We fell short of our goal, but used this experience to become better air-musicians. Great find, Ben! I…
Beggar’s Night, Iowa’s Halloween for Children
Here is a repost from a year ago. Call it laziness, but I like to attribute this to the neighborhood I live in, that has filled out in the last year with new neighbors from out of state. And since they are unaccustomed to the Iowa ways, I wanted to share…