Roxanne with John, Jim, Kathleen, Marlene I grew up riding horses. Just look at me in the above picture. That's...

Another chapter from my deep past. In the early 1930s my dad bought a plot of land just south of...

I was born under a lily pad Ahh, the water lily. Probably my favorite flower. Not far from an old...

Pondo, my dad. I wrote this poem the night before his funeral. One of his last comments was that he...

During a typical Memorial Day weekend, no matter where you are in the country, rain will find you and ruin...

I lay awake listening...scrape, scratch... Downstairs beneath the kitchen floor, deep in the basement, I heard it. I lay awake...

Today is the anniversary of a terrible fire that burned most of a beloved town in the Midwest. This is...

Suddenly, I saw it by Kathleen M. Brosius             “Oh ya,” I whispered. “Wow!” I spoke, pretending that I did...

Cousins John and Jake Auer from Iowa City with a Few Ghost Players "Hey, is this Heaven?"... "No...It's Iowa." The...

What have we gotten ourselves into? The night we spent a week on a ten minute drive. July 4, 2021....