Tiptoe is too great a phrase for it, and step is just an over exaggeration. My feet move forward, one then the other, a centimeter at a time, barely leaving the ground. My hands are out at my sides like a circus performer traveling across a wire. I think this helps, but in reality, it just ...
One of the great passages of generation to generation is the ago-old statement, "Why, boy, I remember when I was a kid, I had to walk five miles to school every day, uphill both ways." Or how about this one, "Listen boy, it was so cold when I was a kid that when I milked the cows, ice cream ...
The 2024 Legislative session began on Jan. 8, and as always, the first week was filled with speeches and all the ceremony that surrounds them. Of course, the highlight of those speeches is always the Governor’s Condition of the State address that was delivered by Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday ...
Dear editor, After the caucus, Trump said Brenna Bird would be a great governor. Everyone knows Trump is teed off at Kim Reynolds. Will Trump urge Brenna Bird to run against Kim Reynolds in the Republican primary for governor? Dennis Benda Toledo
Remember getting an “F” in school? Ok, you didn’t study and deserved the failing grade. But what about when you studied and got an “F” anyway? Oddly, bad grades stick in our minds more than good grades. In high school, my physics teacher had multiple-choice questions on quizzes and ...
It was around two in the morning. I was sitting on the couch in the living room watching TV. My father suddenly appeared. He had on slippers and a pair of underwear that should have been put out of their misery in the mid-nineties. He walked past me, out the front door, out the porch, and into ...
Our children’s education is one of the most important and most sacred responsibilities of parents. Parents have the largest impact on their child’s education and parent involvement is one of the most significant indicators of a child’s success in school (Mapp, Carver, & Lander, 2017). ...
Eminent Domain is the right of governments or their agency to take private property for the public good with just compensation. It‘s been used to take homes for building roads, city lots for development, tribal lands for highways & railroads, farmlands for pipelines … even with work ...
Every year over a hundred volunteers and DNR staff head out to spy on Iowa's Bald Eagles. Thankfully the eagles usually don't mind and we get valuable data that helps us to evaluate how these birds are doing in the state. Volunteers help with two surveys: The Bald Eagle Midwinter Survey and ...
I’ve always been skeptical of dreams and dreamers. Personal experience tells me that when my mind is thrown into neutral as my head hits the bedtime pillow, bizarre dreams erupt. One dream had me “running” on a treadmill down an interstate highway in my robe. In another dream, I hosted a ...