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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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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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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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