Category: Iowa

  • Big Mo Pod Show “King of the Segway”

    Big Mo Pod Show “King of the Segway”

    Hey, I managed to catch the Big Mo Blues Show on July 19, 2024 and then listened to the podcast the next day. Because our big Bose wave radio is packed away in storage as we wait for our house to be built, I had to use our little portable Sony Dream Machine in the…

  • What Does a Dickcissel Sound Like?

    What Does a Dickcissel Sound Like?

    We walked the Terry Trueblood Trail the other day and ran into a couple of other bird watchers. They said they’ve seen many birds called dickcissels on the trail. I couldn’t remember ever seeing or hearing a dickcissel. We have enough trouble catching a clear sight of goldfinches. Both birders said the name comes from…

  • Earthquakes and Railroads and Magic Fingers, Oh My!

    Earthquakes and Railroads and Magic Fingers, Oh My!

    The hotel we’re staying in while our house is being built is very close to railroad tracks. We hear the whistle and then, we feel the train going by. No kidding, we can feel the rumble. It shakes the chairs, the sofa, the bed. The whole room shakes for as long as the train passes…

  • Are These Compass Flowers?

    Are These Compass Flowers?

    I have misidentified plenty of plants and the compass flower is one of them. We were walking the Clear Creek trail the other day and saw what I thought was a patch of compass flowers. See what you think, judging from the featured image. Anyway, I thought the flower itself pointed in a particular direction,…

  • U-Haul is Laying Down the Lavatory Law!

    U-Haul is Laying Down the Lavatory Law!

    Ok, the other day, we were out to U-Haul, not to get more boxes, thank goodness, but so I could use the bathroom. There was this new sign on the door laying down the law about how construction workers should keep it clean-or else. You should know that the Iowa City U-Haul is building a…

  • Big Mo Pod Show- “Goodness is a Practice”

    Big Mo Pod Show- “Goodness is a Practice”

    I’m out of sync with the Big Mo Blues Show and his podcast, mostly because we’re in the middle of this big move and we’re staying in a hotel waiting for this house to be built. I missed his most recent show, but caught the one before that. The podcast title was “Goodness is a…

  • Rounding at Iowa: New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease

    Rounding at Iowa: New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease

    This is one of the latest Rounding@Iowa podcasts and it’s about new treatments for Azheimer’s Disease, with one specific agent called Lecanemab. I’m an old psychiatrist, and I remember my clinical impresson of the previous medications for Alzheimer’s Disease, one of which was Donepezil. The scientific literature seemed to suggest that patients and families were…

  • Hotel Iowa

    Hotel Iowa

    Well, we’re in the next stage of relocation, which is the Hotel California-excuse me, I mean the Hotel Iowa, so to speak. We’re camping out a hotel while our house is under construction. We were up well after midnight moving before we got to the hotel. We had a Casey’s pizza for dinner. The movers…

  • Happy 4th of July!

    Happy 4th of July!

    Here’s wishing everybody a safe and happy 4th of July!

  • Big Things Going on July 4th & More in Iowa

    Big Things Going on July 4th & More in Iowa

    There’s a lot of events in Iowa for July 4th, 2024 and the list is on the 98.1 KHAK web site!