A teacher has a lesson from the ER for all of us
Schools across Iowa have been dark for more than a week because of winter vacation. But a Des Moines teacher still managed to teach a very important lesson during that [...]
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December 30, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
December 26, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
Here’s to wishing everyone a very merry Christmas, happiest of Holidays, and a wonderful New Year as we prepare for 2020. May your life be filled with creativity and wonder. [...]
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December 24, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Extra
Fish, speed dating, and Dutch
The tall, strong-looking Dutch woman began her story by telling me about fish. The story suddenly took a right turn into speed dating. And then the darn thing ended up [...]
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December 23, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
There’s something special about simple charity
This is the time of the year when my psyche — after being worn down by the headaches, the hatred and the heartache around us — gets a much-needed pick-me-up [...]
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December 18, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Extra
Raining in Dutch
Rain in the Netherlands has a certain texture that doesn’t exist back home in Iowa. Here in the Netherlands the rain rarely rages with such thunder and lightning that you [...]
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December 17, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
Quote of the Week “We ought to give thanks for all fortune: If it is ‘good,’ because it is good, If ‘bad’ because it works in us patience [and] humility…” [...]
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December 17, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
The questions I would like to ask ‘Berk’
Whenever a friend or relative dies, it’s not unusual to find ourselves dwelling on the conversations we wish had occurred or the questions that never got asked. That certainly was [...]
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December 11, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Extra
An Iowa boy in the Mauritshuis
She’s definitely looking at me. Of course, it’s just a trick of the eye. A common phenomenon. We’ve all experienced it. But still. After all the adulation, the paparazzi, the [...]
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December 10, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
Quote of the Week “Re-examine all that you have been told…dismiss that which insults your soul.” -Walt Whitman Featured Cultural Offering Dec 13 – CELEBRATE IOWA GALA. 519 Park Street [...]
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December 10, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
UI utility secrecy: A blow to public accountability
The Iowa Board of Regents is being asked this week to consider a complex proposal to turn the operation of the University of Iowa’s utility system over to an unnamed [...]
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