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Category Archives: General
Full Circle
Coming home from the grocery store this week, the traffic was erratic. I could see young people moving over toward my lane in traffic as they were looking down on their phones; going so fast I tensed up wondering if … Continue reading
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Tagged Dick Blair, Kuemper Catholic High School, Larry Long, Quant's Junkyard
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Can It!
In 2009, I won a blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair for my caramels. It was my mom’s recipe, and it took me several tries to get them to taste and be the same consistency as hers. But the … Continue reading
Brain Drain
Have you ever walked into a room and couldn’t remember why you were entering that room? I have the answer as to why that phenomenon is common among us old folks. Bear with me. It’s no surprise that my annual … Continue reading
Political Baptism II
1987 was a busy year for me in politics. Not only was I the Secretary-Treasurer of the UFCW Iowa Branch and the Secretary-Treasurer of the local union, UFCW Local 440, I was the Chair of the Crawford County Democratic Party. … Continue reading
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Tagged Congressperson Gephardt, Crawford County Democrats, Dale Cochran, Denny Colvin, Elaine Baxter, Governor Babbitt, Iowa Caucuses, Jo Ann Zimmerman, Louie DeFriese, Michael Dukakis, Paul Simon, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Senator Al Gore, Senator Joe Biden, UFCW, United Food & Commercial Workers
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Political Baptism
Naivety has always been one of my strong traits. Almost forty years ago, I was elected as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Iowa Branch for the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW). I was also the recently elected Secretary-Treasurer of UFCW … Continue reading
Sneak Peek
There was no better rite of passage from childhood innocence to arrogant adolescence in the 1960s than to see how many kids you could stuff into the trunk of a car and sneak into the drive-in movies. Bub had a … Continue reading