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COMMON GROUND: MY FATHER USED TO TELL ME THAT THE MOON WAS MADE OF CHEESE
Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20, 56 years ago this week.
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IOWA WORK ETHIC? TOP THIS!
Louise Lex, 95 years-old, retired this week from her job working for the citizens of Iowa at the Department of Public Health.
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READER REACTIONS
I like to share the reactions, spoken and written, I’ve received from readers since I started writing Common Ground.
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June 2025

When The Nanny Met Dustin Hoffman
My first day as a New York nanny in mid-June 1971 was the beginning of my return to Iowa, even though I didn’t know it at the time.
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COMMON GROUND: AMY’S NAILS
When I walked into her nail salon in Winterset last Friday, Amy (Xuan) Tran gave me a big hug, tears running down her cheeks.
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COMMON GROUND: I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
We all own the American flag.
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Common Ground: "We can't lose one more thing."
“We can’t lose one more thing,” said DeeAnn Bierstedt emphatically, as I sat around a table with library advocates in Fenton, Iowa, population 250ish…
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May 2025

April 2025

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