Enjoyed seeing friends and meeting new people this weekend. The group of illustrators has grown ten-fold since I started attending and confi...

Iowa City was designated a UNESCO City of Literature a couple years ago. The director is installing a wonderful new literacy program at some...

It's what's lining our street right now. It's like driving through a Dr. Suess world.

We heard a thud from outside yesterday morning as we were getting breakfast. It turned out a Northern Flicker, a large woodpecker-like bird,...

The edits and page design for Where Do Birds Live are now complete. It will soon go to the printer for a fall arrival. Time to work on othe...

Bloodroot. First flower of an Iowa spring. Now playing in Hickory Hill Park and other Midwest green spans around you.

President Obama visited our little burg of Iowa City yesterday and gave a speech on the new health reform. I've never seen a sitting pre...