I admit it—I get sucked into Instagram easily. I can scan through images at a dizzying pace and then twenty minutes later wonder where the time has gone. That’s how pictures work. They’re eye candy
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Anderson Erickson, AE to us locals. The home of “Quality you can taste,” the local dairy that has “Ridiculously high standards,” the age-old dairy on East University Avenue that has those huge cows out
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This week on #thedeliciousstory, we take a trip back to more robust times in the newspaper industry when The Des Moines Register was considered one of the leading (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) papers of
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I was disappointed a couple of summers ago when The Des Moines Art Center announced they’d stop hosting ‘movies under the stars’ on their lawn. It was an event we looked forward to each summer, an
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Steve Noah has a resume with a list of accomplishments stretching across the globe, but he doesn’t place any stock in such a tally. I asked Steve, this week’s guest on #thedeliciousstory, what stages of his
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I accept that there are contemporary trends that have left me behind. I don’t know the latest musical artists, and don’t follow the current clothing fads, but I never considered that I’d be eating dust when it
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Shouldn’t eating be a fairly simple activity?
These days, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Bring strangers together at the table, and you’ll probably
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This weekend as I powered through episodes of “This American Life,” it was the show called “No Fair” that got me thinking about how we’ve come to believe that we’re deserving of a “fair” shake, even
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What’s not to love about a friend you can count on, especially when they feed you delicious food? Long-standing restaurants become a friend in and of themselves, the friendly neighbors appreciated for the
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About a year ago I had the idea for a game I had envisioned designed to spark storytelling amongst players—and my own daughter, Alexandra, was enchanted by the idea and ran with it.
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I admit that I have a romanticized view of the small town attorney. This is an image of someone who is part of the fabric of the community, with a mix of the wisdom of Atticus Finch from To Kill A
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There’s plenty to love about spring—especially after a lengthy and brutal Iowa winter. But one of my favorite amenities of the season is the emergence of the peony bush planted in my front yard. As the
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I’m not going to name names here, but I used to know this person who had answers for EVERYONE (and every circumstance) about how to deal with life. This all-knowing individual thought that opining these
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Where else can you go into the mists of a tropical deciduous rainforest, emerge into the expansive swath of African grasslands, and then minutes later climb the mountain ranges of Southwest China? If
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I like Tudor architecture and bagpipe music, and for a great deal of my life, I’ve wondered why. I like to think that, somewhere in my past, there was an ancestor—perhaps a member of the Tudor gentry—who
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The Baratta’s commercials of the late 1990s were clever, homey vignettes of something that used to happen in the “olden” days. The scene opens with “us,” the ad viewers, looking toward someone leaning
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It’s the question on my mind this week, now that I’m several chapters into reading Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming.” She describes her early childhood avidly, her family and the people of her community,
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First, there was the cheese. I remember going to the Des Moines’ Farmers’ Market and sampling Lois Reichert’s cheeses in the summer of 2010. The experience remains a happy memory. It was a lovely
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I’ve not been one to spend a lot of energy on fashion, or any real sense of personal “style.” I’ve always preferred comfort over aesthetic.
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I remember the “olden” days at family dinners. When the meal was finished, we sat lingering over the remains of a bottle of wine discussing words and their definitions or history topics and the supposed
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