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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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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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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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New Art in the Park Sculptures Coming This Summer!
News Flash! The new Iowa City 2026-2028 Sculpture Showcase begins this coming August! The 2024-2026 Sculptors Showcase was super and you can see it here. The call for submissions went out beginning last month. I guess my sculpture of me as the wolfman does not fit submission criteria.
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Cow Week on KOKZ 105.7 Radio Iowa?
Sena told me that one of the DJs at Iowa radio station KOKZ 105.7 is going on a field trip somewhere to milk cows and who knows, maybe he’ll tip one or two. Hey, that’s up to 25% now, bud. There is a very long Wikipedia article on cow tipping, by the way if you’re…
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Could Ray Bradbury Have Been Lyrical About Isolation & Ebola?
I got this fascinating comment on one of my posts, (Do We See Each Other”), I wrote last year about one of Ray Bradbury’s short stories, entitled “I See You Never.” Judy’s remark was right on target, “Sometimes fiction mirrors life too painfully.” I don’t know whether Bradbury’s short story she called “The Lighthouse” is…
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Memorial Day Connections
I was never in the military, but I tried once ages ago. I guess I’m lucky it didn’t work out. Memorial Day always makes me thing about my father, John Amos. Once upon a time, I would have said our relationship was either non-existent or difficult. But I’m not going to dwell too much on…
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May is Mental Health Month: Today the Topic is Finding Awe
Since May is Mental Health Month, the topic for today is finding awe. I don’t think of it as mainly feeling small in the face of the grandeur of creation. The point is we’re a part of creation. We rightly could feel awe at ourselves just about everywhere we happen to be. We took a…
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Iowa Governor Reynolds Signs Iowa MAHA Bill Into Law Today
We watched the live-stream newscast of Iowa’s News Now video of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signing the Iowa state version of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) bill HF 2676 into law just about an hour ago. U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr was a guest and delivered a short speech in praise of…
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Today is National Hospital Day and National Limerick Day!
Today, in view of this being Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m calling attention to other national special days. One of them is National Hospital Day (and there’s also a National Hospital Week, which runs from May 10-16 this year). And I learned that this is also National Limerick Day, in honor of the English author…
