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Da Blues with Bobby D: I Prefer “Bye Bye Blues”
I can tell you I only half-listened for the most part to ‘da Blues with Bobby D (Bob DeForest) last night on KCCK because I was working on something else. But I could not block out the song “Living in a Dangerous Time” from the Little Axe Champagne & Grits album. I felt haunted by…
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Time for July Psychiatry Consults Reblog Reflections; Ouch!
Here’s a reblog post from June 6, 2019. As I reflect on it, I remember with chagrin the time when I tried to fix the challenge of difficult to decipher psychiatry consult questions. What it taught me belatedly is that you just can’t fix everything. I think my frustration was obvious to the trainees and…
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Correctly Pronounce the Name Odysseus or Just Call Him Bud
I read an interesting essay yesterday in an issue of Iowa Now about a great story in Greek mythology. It’s the story of The Odyssey, which I have difficulty remembering how to spell. And that reminds me of a couple of anecdotes. They both involve my learning about Greek mythology from two great teachers at…
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Last Day of Cow Week and Today is National Donut Day!
It’s the last day of Cow Week and Mike Waters is doing his wake-up call this morning. And he announced that today is National Donut Day! I had no idea. He’s wondering whether there are any bakeries in Eastern Iowa that could get a shout-out for it. I had to look this up on the…
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Cow Cap for Cow Week & Other Mysteries
I went to the mall yesterday and just for the heck of it went to a cap shop (no, not the cop shop; I was a good boy!) and bought a cow cap! The store is called Lids Locker Room for obvious reasons. I told the salesman why I wanted it, filling him on the…
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Being Still Along the Terry Trueblood Trail
The other day I was out for a walk along the Terry Trueblood Trail. It was sunny, a little warm but not blistering hot. I saw a few interesting things. This was almost like an awe walk. I saw a couple of chalk written messages on the walk. One of them was “Enjoy the Ride”…
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Cow Week Wednesday with Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 Trip to the Dairy Farm Wormhole!
This is day 3 of Cow Week with Mike Waters Wake Up Call radio show on KOKZ 105.7. There’s a Sci-Fi angle on the whole cow thing today. Mike’s really hard to keep up with, but today there was this incident involving a cow flying through his window with a note with instructions on it.…
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Thoughts on the Reblog of Thoughts on the National Spelling Bee: Implications for Cow Week?
So, WordPress is telling me that I should post something on June 3, 2026 because I posted something on the same date in 2022. We’d never seen a spelling bee competition before and it was gripping. And then I thought of that Chick-Fil-A commercial spelling bee with the “word” Eat Mor Chikin. Has anyone else…
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Cow Week Stuff from Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7
Hey, it’s Cow Week from Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 and he’s hanging out at New Day Dairy GuestBarn in Clarksville. Remember, it’s National Dairy Month. He’s taking requests for tunes that have cowbell sounds in them and substituting the word “cow” or some synonym for that in song titles and whatnot. One caller suggested “I…
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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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