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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship,” said Louisa May Alcott, the famous Civil War-era author and activist.
Alcott’s words, especially relevant for modern-day leaders who …
I thought all the talk about year-round daylight saving time was much ado about nothing, until I met my friend K.C. just off the sidewalk near Terrace Hill on Grand Avenue.
I say off the …
“We don’t know what we don’t know.”
That’s the crux of a recent essay by Jonathan Wilson in the Des Moines Register.
Wilson, a longtime Des Moines lawyer and former school board member, said the …
When I was growing up, I had a “working mother.” That is what women who worked outside the home were called in the ’60s and ’70s. For a mom to have a career was not …
The University of Iowa’s Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City and the Neal Smith Federal Building in Des Moines are faulty towers.
Both were erected with fanfare that dissipated into disappointment as flaws were …
“They’re chasing rainbows,” my friend K.C. said when our paths crossed near Terrace Hill on an unseasonably cold day.
I was rubbing my hands together to stay warm and the idea of chasing rainbows sounded …
For much of my business career, the words “mental health” were not part of the workplace lexicon. Far from it. At most of the places I worked, if one was struggling with a personal problem …
A recent blog by University of Iowa hydrologist Christopher S. Jones is titled: “Iowa is addicted to Cornography.”
The blog appeared days before the National Academy of Sciences published a new study that shows ethanol …
The Drake Observatory, located between the 17th and 18th holes on Waveland Golf Course, is perhaps the most unusual of six local buildings featured in three-minute videos produced by the Iowa Architectural Foundation.
The videos …
When I mentioned to a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) professional that I was planning to write a column on Black History Month, she commented that if we are only approaching DEI work in regards …
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