Should the government help people who can’t afford to pay their mortgages keep their houses?
If it does, what’s it going to do for those of us who live within our means, studied the pros and cons of various mortgage options and took the most financially responsible route?
I’ll tell you what a bailout program would do [...]
Spotted in the 32nd Street NE, Cedar Rapids, Hy-Vee parking lot - a little red Porsche 914 with the personalized license plate, “RED HEN.”
What does it mean? A red car with a female driver? Someone shopping for hens? Someone with a really strong work ethic?
Yes, when I think of red hen, I think of “The Little [...]
It’s always refreshing and rewarding when a teacher uses something you’ve written in a classroom. So that’s why I’m posting this comment from Wendy Anderson, an eighth grade language arts teacher at Prairie Middle School, rather than simply using it as a comment to either my March 24 or April 7 posts (columns also appeared those days in The Gazette) about writing [...]
What a joy to spend a couple of hours with a man of Merrill Sparks’ caliber.
Merrill, 85, a native Iowan who retired to Iowa City about four years ago (See today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette), has performed all around the United States and has known some really famous people including actor James Cagney, “April [...]
At Kate Hawkins’ May Day fest Thursday in Cedar Rapids (see Ramblin’ in The Gazette on Friday, May 2), dozens upon dozens of folks showed up to enjoy gorgeous and great tasting homemade cookies and to leave behind cans/boxes of food as well as money for the Linn County Food Bank.
Always one to promote social networking [...]
When I posted my blog item about Mary Korkie on April 12, I ended it with her son, John’s, story about her visiting the bronze ground marker bearing her husband’s name, which also read ’Mary 1927-’
It can now read Mary, 1927-2008, since she died peacefully April 28.
I had written about Mary in a Gazette Ramblin’ column last Dec. 17. She grew [...]
It had been years since I last talked to Bertha Peck, but I was still saddened by her death Saturday at age 80. I always remembered stopping to chat with her a dozen years ago, in 1996, as I drove by her very modest northwest Anamosa home where she was doing early spring yard work. Our conversation resulted [...]
You can learn a lot about life from golf. One is, don’t take everything, especially the game, too seriously.
Two friends - Joe and Moe - were playing golf one Saturday morning when they decided to pretend as if they were on the professional tour. That meant adhering strictly to all of the rules of golf, including not improving the [...]
Last Dec. 17, I wrote a column about Mary Korkie, 80, who grew up in Pennsylvania and has moved to Iowa to live with her son, John. That column revolved around the fact that Mary had won a $1,200 slot machine jackpot in Bettendorf, but didn’t have the proper identification to claim it. John helped her acquire [...]
Derdre Rodriguez, 37, of Cedar Rapids has had enough excitement foiling a burglar with a four-foot-long ice scraper she’d used all winter to chip ice from her driveway. Now, this single mother of 9-year-old Nathan Vasquez just wants life to return to normal.
If you read today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette, you met Derdre. During an interview Thursday [...]
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