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Conversation With A Neighbor
How's Your Spring Goin'?
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Does The Land Really Matter?
I believe it does.......
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Roller Coaster Ride
My week of lows and highs
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Using Team Sports as an Example
How we can make Iowa an even better place to live
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Saturday Afternoon Football
January 27, 2023 - Listening to the Iowa State v. Kansas Basketball Game
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Grandma Freeberg's Coffee Bread
A Story of Immigration
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Give Peace a Chance
Thoughts on war and conflict
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I'll Huff and I'll Puff and I'll Blow Your House Down!
"You're what?" "Whatever made you consider building a strawbale house?" "What about mice?" "You can do that here in Iowa?" "Didn't people build those…
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Firmly Rooted
Firmly Rooted
Denise O'Brien and Larry Harris, unique individuals who chose to remain in their place of birth to be organic farmers. The Harris/O'Brien partnership has lived by the philosophy that "the personal is political", a feminist movement phrase from the 1970s.
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