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Been There, Done That

From city kid to city manager, a bio in pictures

WET STUFF -- RED STUFF -- MED STUFF: 2023

PCCS

Founded This Eco-School With Vicky, Miriam, Evelyn & Ellen

Exit Interview

Thank you, Davenport

Farewell, Bulldogs

bad art & wierdo ideas

a beach slang tune

flat roofs & weirdo ideas

240 W. Mill Street

Siftings

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Apr

SOOT

What if The Replacements were not just the best band of all time -- too cool for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- but also ran an obscure firefighter t-shirt company? What if “Lights that flash in the evening” was not a lyric to Can’t Hardly Wait (the best song (song with lyrics, at least) ever)...

Mar

Couldn’t Not

I was once not embarrassed by something I wrote. There is a sentence in the Prairie Crossing Charter School chartering document -- dated July 4, 1998 -- that ends, “Prairie Crossing students will subtly but profoundly come to appreciate a very special place; the natural landscape of their youth.” ...

Mar

Loopy

Something’s been bugging me, so I did some spelunking. Not the traditional caving, because confined spaces and bats creep me out and I can never remember which ones are stalactites and which ones are stalagmites. If spelunking is, “exploring wild, non-commercial caves, often involving...