Inspiration is a unique quality. Sometimes it leads us toward special places, or to accomplish things we did not know we could do. Our known “to-do” lists might become agonizingly too long, so it becomes easy to join the club of procrastinators. If you can identify with that idea, raise ...

irst of all at this holiday season time of the year, I wish you and all whom you care about a very Merry Christmas. So in that theme, you can read, again, the special “First Christmas” story penned by the late John Garwood. Many of you never knew this man. He wrote columns for this ...

Winter is a reminder that colder weather is a normal expectation. Cold air, strong winds, snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain, sunny days and cloudy days are all part of this seasonal transition. Our Earth’s axis is tilted away from the sun to its maximum angle of about 24 degrees. One week ...

Deer hunting is a big thing for outdoor enthusiasts this next week. Hopefully full safety issues will be followed by everyone who is out and about and participating in a hunt. Iowa has two gun seasons to separate approximately one-half those 100,000 deer hunters so all of them are not in the ...

The Iowa River is an interesting landscape feature. All of Iowa has well mapped delineations of watersheds with names like Upper Iowa, Turkey, Maquoketa, Wapsipinicon, Cedar, Skunk, Des Moines, Chariton, Rock, Floyd, Little Sioux, Soldier, Boyer, Mosquito Creek, Nishnnabotna, Nodaway, Platte ...

Grizzly bears are not a wild critter to be taken lightly. It is an extremely strong apex predator of many mountainous western states such as Montana, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming and others. The situation today is complicated as the bears are well established in areas like Yellowstone National ...