Opinion
Cabin (painting) Fever: An Editor\'s guide to surviving a too-long winter
Winter was getting the best of me. I had plunged into despair, watching Olympic ice dancing, writing grumpy columns about the unchanging climate and paying way too much attention to celebrity stalk... 4 more years (and beyond)...
For 18 years, from March of 1992 until March of 2010, I worked for newspapers.
You probably remember newspapers: Those collections of pages of news, ads and pictures folded together and delive...
She\'ll be comin\' around the mountain...
This last week we lost my very first music teacher, Mrs. Wright. The name on her obituary didn’t stir any memory until I heard my husband ask me if I knew “Mrs. Wright.” The light...
Finally, a friend (or three), for a global warming Neanderthal
For years now – 22 of them to be exact – my liberal friends have been reading my columns mocking global warming and repeatedly reminding me of just how much of a mouth-breathing, knuckl...
To the Editor: Licensing of midwives would offer many benefits to women
I am writing to inform citizens on the state of midwifery in Iowa.
At present, Certified Professional Midwives, midwives who attend the majority of out-of-hospital births, are not licensed in ...
A lesson in sportsmanship and patriotism, from a long-time rival
Athletes and spectators competitive sports learn many things: Skills. Teamwork. Discipline. Sportsmanship – how to play, win and lose graciously.
We learn these things from coaches, teamm... When OCD and ADD get married...
This year I decided that my New Years Resolution was to be a free spirit...and realize I will probably end up just slightly more free spirited than Sheldon of the Big Bang Theory,
The last few ...
Speechless on Feb. 14
Somewhere a soldier
Sits drinking his Folger's
And wondering what words would rhyme
With "desert" and "sandstorm"
And "al-Muqdadiya"
And he ho...
Why I use 'I' when I think 'I' helps you know I understand you
A man who read my column called “Pebbles in our shoes” got to the end of my thoughts about learning that we have had an accused murderer living in our midst for several years . Then he...
Creativity vs. controversy: The best, worst & mediocre Super Bowl commercials
There is nothing more American than ... a good, old-fashioned social media melee over Super Bowl commercials.
The game was forgettable (although not to Seattle or its fans), but the commercials...