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Greenwood Rising - Story of a Massacre
The thing that struck me, that grabbed my attention, dropped my jaw and provided a glimpse of the devastation that occurred a century...
Jan 20, 20225 min read


Amana: A Holiday Tradition
It was a tradition. My birthday is early December and as Darling Daughter was growing up our family would take a day trip the first...
Dec 19, 20215 min read


Beam Me Up Scotty (Capt. Kirk's Conception)
If you’re willing to use a little imagination, make that a lot of imagination, you can beam yourself up in a transporter located at the...
Nov 19, 20215 min read


The Best World Series Ever
Thirty years ago, the Minnesota Twins, a team that finished dead last the previous year, faced off against the Atlanta Braves, a team...
Oct 25, 20216 min read


Marfa's Mysterious Lights
There’s a line in Miranda Lambert’s song, In His Arms, that references the Marfa lights: Is he praying for rain out in West Texas? Is he...
Oct 21, 20212 min read


Comanche National Museum & Johnny Depp?
Sitting in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hotel room recently I was doing what most of us do when killing time these days, aimlessly scrolling...
Oct 11, 20213 min read


Keeper of the Plains
Rising more than 70 feet above the confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers in the heart of Wichita, Kansas, is a steel...
Oct 11, 20212 min read


A Very Big Thing for Neglected Animals
Mary’s Farm Sanctuary recently posted a photo on Facebook of their newest adoption, a senior horse that will someday again, be beautiful....
Oct 8, 20213 min read


Starry, Starry Night, Immersively
Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Vincent -...
Oct 5, 20214 min read


Working On the Chain Gang
Images of Paul Newman and Cool Hand Luke came to mind as I drove down a short Louisa County Iowa highway recently. More appropriately...
Sep 16, 20213 min read


Post-9/11 Tour and Where To See Steel From WTC
Where were you 20 years ago when you heard the news? Anyone old enough to remember back that far knows exactly where they were when those...
Sep 10, 20214 min read


A Tipi, Iowa Prairie and a Whole Lot of Ants
Close your eyes, well not literally because I want you to keep reading but play along, and imagine you've been transported back 300 years...
Sep 8, 20216 min read


My Beautiful, Beautiful Balloon
When I was in Junior High, that's what they called it before someone dreamed up the term Middle School, my parents loaded me up into the...
Aug 26, 20215 min read


How I Became a Swinger
This, this is one of the big things I imagined, I dreamed of, when I thought about what life would be like in retirement. Ok, just stop...
Aug 23, 20214 min read


Van Life Here I Come
Well, that title might be overstating it a bit but, I just checked another item off that retirement “to do” list; building a platform in...
Aug 19, 20213 min read


Around and Around They Go
And where they stop, everyone knows. The finish line, of course. Well, except those unfortunate ones who suffer mechanical issues or,...
Jul 28, 20216 min read


It's creepy and it's, bizarre
Cue Addams Family music: Their house is a museum Where people come to see 'em They really are a scream The Addams Family. While...
Jun 16, 20216 min read


Meeting Sasquatch's Little Brother
During my 2017 trip to Denali I decided to take a day and visit Talkeetna. I’d heard how great a place it was and decided a break from...
May 7, 20215 min read


I Rented a Whole House!
(Fourth of four posts about trip to Smoky Mountains and Asheville, NC.) Let me just put this out there first, I'm not a fancy hotel...
May 7, 20213 min read


The Biltmore Estate is, well, huge
(Third of four posts about trip to Smoky Mountains and Asheville, NC.) What more can you say? The Biltmore Estate is huge. It’s nearly...
Apr 18, 20213 min read
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