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Changes in My Hometown
Yesterday, Mom and I drove to Le Mars, my hometown, to visit relatives. So much has changed since I graduated from college in 1978. The old post office is now the Community Theater’s headquarters. The old Carnegie library, where I met Lois Lenski, Laura Ingalls...
Hot, Hot, Hot
I was up with the birds this morning, but at 6:30 was already seventy-seven degrees and humid as all get out. Walking was pure torture, and sweat dripped into my eyes and soaked my clothes. Yuck! Since the temperature will most likely hit the high nineties today, I...
Baby Toads & Deer Flies
After a month and a half of comfortable days and and pleasant, sleeping weather nights, Iowa’s normal weather pattern arrived with a vengeance last week. The humidity is oppressive, the temperatures hot all day and only slightly cooler after sunset. Forecasters like...
Here’s the Proof, Sibs
This is the last blog about last week’s writing conference. I promise. But before I close the book on the subject, please scrutinize the photo above and notice my presence on a conference panel of real, live, published, legitimate authors. As you can see, they even...
Doc
All week I’ve been meaning to share a little about the Iowa Christian Writers’ Conference I attended last week. And all week this, that, and the other thing has kept me from doing it. But I promise that today and tomorrow will be about the conference. The conference,...
Grandma Fern’s Wilted Lettuce
Isn’t this vegetable garden lovely? I’d love to take credit for it, but all credit goes to my neighbor who jogs while I walk and plies her green thumb while I think about plying mine. Thanks to her, our family will feast on Grandma Fern’s wilted lettuce tonight. G’ma...