One person’s junk is another person’s memorabilia
As we get closer to moving Dad into an Assisted Living apartment (he’s back in the hospital, btw), the prospect of somehow disposing of his lifetime of “stuff” now looms nearer. He’ll be moving from a three-bedroom house (with garage and finished basement) into a one-bedroom apartment.
My brother and I have been discussing how best [...]
Summer vacations revisited
Hey remember the link round-up I did last summer collecting up a bunch of your summer vacation blog posts? Now that we are firmly entrenched in the deep freeze I thought it might be fun to see what everyone was up to back when it was 80+ degrees hotter than it is now.
Joel - have [...]
Bloggers: get MORE link-love from DMweblife!
Just a quickie post to let you know that I’ve added a new enhancement to my installation of WordPress, the blogging program I use here on DMweblife. It’s a tool called Comment-Luv, and it does something really nifty: when you leave a comment on one of my posts, it searches the URL you provide for [...]
Woops, I did it again - another new blog
Remember my post about simplifying my blogging life in 2008? Ha, yeah, me too. Well, that was short-lived. I think it was only a couple days later I bought a new domain name. With all that’s going on in my life these days it took me longer than usual to get the blog set up, [...]
I’m a basketball mom!
Like most Iowans, I’ve grown up watching the state high school basketball tournaments and just generally being aware of how important they are to the schools, the communities, and to the state as a whole. So this week, because I live in a state where high school basketball is a really big deal, I took [...]
Legislature to debate changes to bottle deposit program
The Iowa Legislature will be taking up a proposal by Governor Chet Culver to change the state’s bottle and can deposit program, wherein the deposit will double to a dime - but customers will only get 8 cents of it back when they turn in their bottles and cans. What a load of crap. As [...]
Dad’s senior living journey: affordable assisted living
Yesterday I finally had an opportunity to visit an assisted living facility I’d been hoping to see. It’s called Walden Point, located on 4th Street just north of Mercy Hospital. I think this is the place I would like to move my dad, and we have begun taking steps to get him there.
I drove to my [...]
State Legislature convenes 2008 session
Last fall, I wondered aloud if anyone was polling you to find out what issues you wanted the State Legislature to cover in its 2008 session. You had some interesting thoughts, but a common thread was the desire to see a ban on smoking in public places. I’ve also predicted that we’ll see a call [...]
Political quickies on New Hampshire Primary Day
Okay, not to beat the poor political horse too much, but I just discovered why February 5 is considered “Super Tuesday.” Did you know that 27 states (and something called “American Samoa”) have primaries or caucuses for one or both parties on that day? No wonder it’s often the final shake-out for the weakest candidates.
Speaking [...]
After-caucus picture round-up
Here’s a round-up of some of the bloggers who have posted Caucus-related photos:
Cindy got some ‘celebrity pictures’ from inside the reporting center at the Convention Complex downtown
Here are all my photos of the reporting center
The Mostly Reverend rode his bicycle to the caucus… which is more than can be said for any of the candidates!
Joe [...]
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