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Connections on the Compass of Life
I read an interesting article in the Iowa Capital Dispatch a couple days ago entitled “Iowa communities look to fill gaps in statewide mental health care” by Kadin Luhmann. The fascinating main story was about a relatively new mental health care initiative taking place in my hometown, Mason City, Iowa. It led to a number…
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Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 New Day Dairy Show and Sena Rocks the Dairy Dance!
So, it’s the first day of National Dairy Month and Mike Waters started his KOKZ 105.7 radio show right on time. He chronicled his morning at New Day Dairy Guest Barn in Clarksville, Iowa, including milking cows as Dairy Man Dan and his wife Lynn coached him about life on a dairy farm. Sena and…
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Okay It’s National Dairy Month!
Well, today is the first day of National Dairy Month and the biggest event I know of so far is the KOKZ 105.7 New Day Dairy Weekend Getaway where you and your loved ones will be chained to hard wooden stools and required to milk 900 cows every morning for the entire month! Sound good?…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: Earth vs The Spider
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” Wow, this movie was lame! But what did I expect? Easily, the bright spot during the show was Svengoolie’s famous doodle riddle called Too Drawn Out in which he makes a few drawings which you have to guess…
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Annual University of Iowa Psychiatry Dept. Kickball Torture Scheduled in June!
The announcement for the annual Dept. of Psychiatry Kickball game just came out. I think that was also the day the trees in our backyard outlot got heat shock and dropped a lot of their leaves. It was in the high 80s. So, the event is scheduled for June 29, 2026 at 6:00 pm at…
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KCCK da Blues with Bobby D
Hey, last night Bobby D, Bob DeForest was covering the Friday night blues show and I heard a song that was new to me, “You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover” by Albert Castiglia and featuring Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. First of all, I found out a lot of people don’t understand the title and…
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Baptism for a Lightweight
This post is a blast from the past. Before I published the handbook for consultation-liaison psychiatry over 15 years ago, I suggested a blog post for the Cambridge University Press author web site. I can’t remember if they bought the idea-probably not. But I was pretty proud of our little book, since it weighed zero…
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The Lantern of Diogenes and Diogenes Syndrome
I’ve been looking at my old WordPress blog posts from 16 years ago. I found one entitled “The Lantern of Diogenes.” It’s connected to Dr. Jenny Lind Porter, who published her book of poems in 1954, entitled The Lantern of Diogenes. I guess I can repost the first part of that blog post, in which…
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The Skinny on That Whole Cow Week Thing on Radio KOKZ 105.7!
Just a heads up about the Cow Week post from a couple days ago. Sena got more details about it. It turns out June is National Dairy Month. So, KOKZ has this event going for Cow Week and more, which I think is still on for next week. It turns out KOKZ has a New…
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Coming to Terms with Retirement ReBlog 2026
Reblog Note: WordPress notified me today that on this date in 2019, I posted “Coming to Terms with Retirement.” I hardly know what to say about it, except that I’m in about the same boat now as I was then, for the most part. I’m not sure what stage I’m in now in retirement. It’s…
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