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Arts
What Are Some Great Books for Summer Reading?: Iowa Patch Book Club
It might be because my mother is a librarian, but I've always associated summer with reading. Even now that I have grown into adulthood from that wee lad who would read novel after n...
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The Neighborhood Files
UPDATE: Reading Assistance Dogs Coming Back Tonight
Grant Shulz’ mom, Pam Schulz, said her son has difficulty reading. It’s not that he struggles a lot with identifying words, it’s that the 7-year-old and his brother Jackson, 5, can’t...
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Arts & Entertainment
On Being Lost: Part 1
Ordinarily, being lost is a condition we choose to avoid, but it’s also one about which we are very curious. Lost places, lost causes, and lost people are often at the center of the stor...
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Arts & Entertainment
An Introduction, Including a Bit of a Confession
There are certain aspects of blogging about which I’ve been curious for some time. Early internet visionaries promised a communications revolution. The mode of many-to-many would first ...