Excuse the teardrops on this column, but your friendly neighborhood paragraph stacker is crying tears of joy. The Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team made it to the NCAA Final Four. They’re led by that wunderkind from West Des Moines, Caitlyn Clark, the darling of all college basketball this season. She shoots, she passes, she rebounds,Continue reading “Finally a Final Four for Iowa’s ultimate coaching power trio: Bluder, Jensen, and Fitzgerald”
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If I fall, will my Apple Watch catch me?
The teacher’s schedule is admirable in many ways. The school day is technically over at 3:45 p.m., at least by our union contract. I don’t know many teachers who make it out of the building on the dot every day. I seldom do, but I’m not a veteran yet. We get nice breaks around theContinue reading “If I fall, will my Apple Watch catch me?”
Meekly, I wade into middle-age melancholia
I’ve felt my age a lot this year. It goes beyond the pain in my arthritic knees or other physical foibles brought on by age. Every day I discover something I thought was solid has turned to liquid and I’m drowning in uncertainty. The words of the late Joan Didion haunt me; in the prefaceContinue reading “Meekly, I wade into middle-age melancholia”
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