Looking Up

When you were a youngster growing up and going to school, who did you admire?  If anything like kids today, you may have been infatuated with some celebrity, musician, or sports star that you got to see from afar.  But what about a real person in your life that you...

Hello There!

As I drive through the back county roads of Southern Iowa, often I pass oncoming traffic and give the one or two finger ‘howdy’ or farmer wave and about half the time I get a similar response.  On rare occasions, someone waves at me first and I even got an arm in the...

Church Coffee

Do you usually get a cup of coffee before or after your Sunday church service?  Is this something unique to Sunday, or do you do this everyday?  I grew up in a Lutheran church and I recall the coffeepot sitting there every week ready to dispense bitter, steaming hot...

Everyday

It was about 16 years ago this past month, and after tearing through Europe for a week in a little Renault Clio, my father and I ended up in Paris for the last 2 days of our trip.  After getting settled at the hotel in the afternoon and finding a spot around the...

Weather or Not

Back when I was in Middle School, I was into weather, and if you would have asked me, I probably would have said I wanted to be a Meteorologist.  I even remember doing a Science Fair project on how a Cold Front works.  Maybe it was because I lived in Iowa, but I was...