Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Donald Trump
No, not that wall. The one that seems to be veining all across America dividing otherwise solid citizens from other solid citizens of a slightly different ilk. It’s a wall built of acrimony and rancor and good old-fashioned American hate. On the one side we find shouters who emulate their boss, the POTUS, most of…
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Summer officially made its way to Ames a week ago, but signs of its impending arrival had been here ever since we drove into town from the West Coast early in June. Summer-like thunderstorms had been rolling their way through these parts on an almost every-other-day basis , leaving us with incredibly lush lawns, fast-growing…
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My iPhone rang just after 10 this morning — Thursday. It was Donna — the treasurer of our condominium association here in Ames — asking if I could go downstairs, to the first floor, and help resident Mary Ann. When I walked down, Mary Ann was in the midst of a true crisis. Water from…
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Thunderstorms here in the Heart of the American Heartland — Ames, Iowa — are not for the faint-of-heart. Though we’ve been here only a bit more than a week, we’ve already endured one of those “fasten your seat belts” weather-makers. This one blew in with quite a vengeance last Wednesday afternoon around 5. The sky…
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Traveling across country was incredibly difficult back in the early 1800’s. Just imagine — and it’s not easy to do — driving a covered wagon across rutted dirt trails that stretched thousands of miles from the Midwest to the West Coast. It took months, and many of those 19th-century travelers never made it. They had…
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