I exercised this morning, doesn’t that count for something?

When it rains it pours. Especially if you don’t have your umbrella because you left it at home, like I did today. I also left my super-secret faculty/staff parking pass that I planned to use when I went to speak at the university today. So I required an extra trip home to get the pass, [...]

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Carry Out, Not Drive In

Last week I read about someone driving through the post office over at Melissa C. Morris. (Scroll down to August 19 to see what the postmaster did, I can’t seem to link directly to the post. Sorry!) While I don’t think I have too much in common with Ms. Morris beyond the obvious we both [...]

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A great compliment

Pete just told me: “She’s just like you. She’s cute and Iowan.” (She = Shawn Johnson.)
Go, Shawn, go. Iowans everywhere are proud of you. Obviously. Enough to devote a butter sculpture to it.
And lest you think the butter sculpture is weird, you should read this. Because then you’ll know it’s not that out of line [...]

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Enjoying the ride

Five years ago tomorrow we moved here for graduate school.  I spent the first 18 years of my life in one town (village?), 5 in my college town and now five here. Somehow I feel so, um, adultlike. Makes it seem almost hard to believe that this is what my husband looked like when I [...]

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Second choice

My dad and I banter about politics via email every couple of days. Well, not really banter because we’re sort of preaching to the choir as we agree about 99.98% of the issues. Anyway, I asked if he’d seen Paris Hilton’s response to the Obama ad, and he responded“Yes I’ve seen Paris Hilton’s ad. She’ [...]

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