Five Questions with… Lori Nordstrom
Five Questions With… is a weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Lori Nordstrom of Lori Nordstrom Photography, which showcases Lori’s ability to capture the true spirit of her photography subjects.
1. What’s the focus of your blog? (Or if you’d rather, What’s the main reason you began [...]
Link Round-Up, July 22
It’s been a busy weekend around here and a challenge to keep up with all the blogging going on, but here are a few more posts I really enjoyed this week:
Mitch Matthews wonders whether your cell phone helps or hurts your work-life balance?
Christi shares a little about her latest blog project and gives us the [...]
Indianola Bike Night: “Bike Down to I-Town!”
It’s been a busy weekend - rode down to Indianola for “bike night” on Friday, it was the largest crowd I’ve ever seen down there. The square and surrounding streets were all lined with bikes, down all sides and rows down the middle… hundreds (couple thousand?) people - wow!! - and some neat live bands, [...]
Follow the trail that follows you
Nick has become the victim of a company down-sizing - a situation which I certainly do hope evolves into a door opening rather than a door closing.
His post reminded me of something I wrote a few months ago about modern-day job-hunting. On another blog, I posted about the notion that your friends may not be the only [...]
Principal launches major downtown expansion!
Wow, here is big news from Principal Financial Group. Both KCCI and the Business Record are reporting via email that Principal will add 1,500 new jobs over the next five years, 840 of which will have an average wage of $23.45 per hour. They are also launching a $100+ million expansion in Des Moines, including [...]
Starting your genealogy project: a basic tip sheet
Earlier this week I promised a beginner’s tip sheet on launching a genealogy project. Remember that genealogy is both the search for documentation about family members as well as the gathering of recollections and stories. Larry Lehmer has much better advice than I on the latter, so I’ll focus on the basic tools of gathering [...]
Bus driver will not be charged
I’m relieved that police have determined the bus/pedestrian collision was an accident. It’s little comfort, but good to know, that drugs, alcohol and road rage were not involved. I’m sure everyone has seen infractions on both sides of this coin - bus drivers being too aggressive, pedestrians foolishing stepping into traffic because, legally, they have the [...]
Link Round-Up, July 18
M.R. Field on Around Des Moines gives Planned Parenthood an opportunity to showcase their new headquarters location.
Andy Drish asks, “At what point between college and getting that first job do people lose their ambition?” (Hint: it doesn’t necessarily happen between college and the first job. If you don’t have the tools and the attitude to [...]
City studies plan to increase fines against landlords for criminal tenant behavior
Update: I stand corrected on the “evictions can take months” statement I made below. Someone gave me a little more info about the tools available to landlords for evicting problem tenants, and turns out it can happen in as little as a week.
The Register mentions this afternoon that the City of Des Moines is considering [...]
More annoying Linguistic habits we should break
Another of my “linguistic habits” posts totalled some 32,346 words all on one topic (the movie “Dick”). So, I decided to shorten things up a bit. Here are a few more verbal short-cuts we should eliminate immediately from our daily discourse:
1. Use of the cliche, “as a rule of thumb.” This phrase originally referred to the “rule” (actually a British [...]
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