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Been There, Done That

From city kid to city manager, a bio in pictures

WET STUFF -- RED STUFF -- MED STUFF: 2023

PCCS

Founded This Eco-School With Vicky, Miriam, Evelyn & Ellen

Exit Interview

Thank you, Davenport

Farewell, Bulldogs

bad art & wierdo ideas

a beach slang tune

flat roofs & weirdo ideas

240 W. Mill Street

Siftings

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Apr

Quiet Time

County Highway CS west of the Hardees at the I90 Loves truck stop may seem an odd place to ponder late-stage capitalism. But I have some alone time and who knows how these ponderings begin. Maybe because the Hardees shoe-horned into the corner of Loves never registered with me before. The...

Apr

SOOT

What if The Replacements were not just the best band of all time -- too cool for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- but also ran an obscure firefighter t-shirt company? What if “Lights that flash in the evening” was not a lyric to Can’t Hardly Wait but was stenciled in a Swiss modernist font in white...

Mar

Couldn’t Not

I was once not embarrassed by something I wrote. There is a sentence in the Prairie Crossing Charter School chartering document -- dated July 4, 1998 -- that ends, “Prairie Crossing students will subtly but profoundly come to appreciate a very special place; the natural landscape of their youth.” ...