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The Iowa State Fair
We went to the Fair! Damn, do I love the fair. Look at all those people! The Grand Concourse More than a million people come to the Iowa State Fair every year. There are only three million people in...
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Watching the Olympics Did Not Count as a Workout
Back at crossfit today. Turns out taking two out of three weeks off is a bad idea. Oh summer, what have you done to me? Beer and fried food and lazy days. Oh my. In my defense, I did watch a lot of...
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Studying for Crossfit
Sit-ups have traditionally been my weak point. The first PT test I took in basic training I did nine. Yep, nine. My failure embarrassed me then and still bristles me today. So I studied. At the end of...
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Long Walks on Dog Beach
The first time we held the dog over water, she paddled her little puppy paws in the air. These days, she will fetch a tennis ball until those little paws can barely hold her up. Even then she wants to...
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Afternoon Naps
The new job starts soon. Too soon it seems. Until then, I’m enjoying these last lazy late-summer afternoons and so is this sleepy poodle. God, I love her but sometimes it seems like she is doing this...
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Last Days of Summer and Mutual Hallucinations
The girlfriend and I made a list of the thing we wanted to do before fall arrives and our carefree days disappear. A Twins baseball game easily made the top of the list and today was perfect. Eighty...
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Summer Reading and Little Libraries
Little libraries spot my new neighborhood. Wooden hutches, or cupboards rather, filled with books. Free books. I hope you have these in your lives. I check them compulsively when I walk the dog – the...
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Communication is a Key to a Good Relationship
Summer has disappeared but the poodle has been busy:
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We Got Married.
On the hottest day in June we stood on a gravel path that cut through a prairie in central Iowa. We held small bouquets arranged by my mother-in-law, calla lilies and freesia. My brother combed his...
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Summer Songs
Every summer a certain song or two sticks to my psyche. This summer one of those wonderfully sticky songs is Lorde’s Royals. That beat. That voice. Swoon.
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A Poodle Kills a Cicada
Seventeen years ago a generation of cicadas crawled from an underground slumber in the Iowa soil and screamed for months. They flew about like tiny drunk pilots, slamming into humans and agriculture...
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On Trying to Write a Book
I’ve taken three weeks off work (unpaid) thanks to a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. One of the best and most unexpected things about Minnesota is how supportive it can be of artists. Who knew? I...
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