Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
A couple of benches on bridge in Iowa City offer the perfect view of both progress and the past. The bridge straddles active railway tracks so a person could pause on a daily walk, plop down and ponder the wonder of travel. A passenger train first made its way to Iowa City on January 3, [...]
Josh, a poet and photographer, offered to take free portraits of his fellow Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates. He told them he wanted to do it so, when their books came out, he could be a part of them. That's the supportive environment my daughter Molly found when she came to Iowa City in 2023. She [...]
I hid behind a large bush near the front yard of the Dey House for longer than I care to admit. The house itself did not intimidate me. In fact, I might have walked right past had my daughter Molly not tasked me with a simple, intriguing, terrifying challenge. “There’s an author Q&A,” she said. [...]