We’ve all cried at one time or another. As an ornery kid, my dad would give me well-deserved, overdue whoopins’ and I’d cry. Or have you laughed so hard that you cried? Interestingly, the older we get, we tend to cry less. In college, I got ticked off at my dad and said some things ...
I'm not a reporter. I'm not a journalist. I am an artist. I have been the cartoonist for the paper here for well over a year, but I've been playing "reporter" for only a few months. Now I can't tell you how I go about making my cartoons because that process is weird and uniquely my ...
In a book I’m reading, the author relates a lesson taught by one of his teachers, who told him, “You can’t shut other people’s mouths.” I found this thought to be genius. It’s a simple, but profound statement. You can’t control what other people say. You physically ...
As of this week's paper, I will be 14 weeks into my stay at the Tama-Toledo News Chronicle. Now I don’t want to say everything has been easy by any means, I’ve experienced lots of late nights and cut many deadlines close. Through the ups and downs that is local reporting, I’ve come ...
I love my neighbors — they’re the spice of life...they’re helpful, encouraging and most of all, downright entertaining! They make for lol! My neighbor in DeWitt believed his property line went through our backyard even after having it surveyed. Since he loved mowing (daily!), he ...
I have never in my life thought about leaving Toledo. I was raised here, and I'll die here, just hopefully not today. I have friends that have traveled from coast to coast, one friend that just went to Florence, I know a woman who just visited Italy, and I know people that annually travel ...
When I started with the newspaper in March, approaching strangers seemed like a very daunting task. Before diving into local journalism, you probably wouldn't see me striking up a conversation with someone I wasn’t familiar with. I wouldn't describe myself as someone with social anxiety ...
Varmints are haunting our gardens with unabashed brazenness! Insultingly, I find rabbits playfully romping through my garden with all care thrown to the wind, and when I pound on the window or yell and clap my hands from the back door, they seem to defiantly go into a stare-down competition ...
DENISON — Gordon Wolf was everywhere in Denison. Until he wasn’t. A trusted newspaper editor, a 24-year veteran of the Denison Bulletin-Review, a bespectacled journalist fond of button-down short-sleeve shirts that date to an earlier time of ink-stained work when most newspapers had ...
June 15, 2023, is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging is proud to join communities in the USA and all over the world to help raise awareness of this systemic social challenge. As Americans, we believe in justice for all. Yet we fail to live up to this ...