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The bucket can hardly contain them all. I held the bucket up, so Scott could see inside. How many? I asked my husband. Three-hundred? Four-hundred? More, he said. Maybe 500, he guessed. The bucket holds an unruly pile of colorful sticks: Twistables, RoseArt and old-fashioned Crayola crayons. There are markers, too: washable, bold, pastel. Some […]
Blogging can feel a tad scary at times. I mean, let’s face it. It’s like journaling out loud. Like opening up your diary to strangers — or scarier still — blood relatives. In Blogger-ville, if we’re Keepin’ It Real, we’re letting people peek inside our thoughts, twisted as they may be. We’re inviting others to […]
At week’s start, I finally tackled three piles of mail that had remained untouched during our Thanksgiving holiday weekend. There, hidden between newspapers, bills and a glossy Lillian Vernon catalog, lay our own version of the Ten Dollar Blessing. Some background: A few days ago, Billy Coffey of What I Learned Today wrote a beautiful […]
June 12, 2001Des Moines RegisterSection: Main News; Page 7 Steely McVeigh breathes his last By JENNIFER DUKES LEEREGISTER STAFF WRITER Terre Haute, Ind. – Bill McCarthy stared into the eyes of his brother’s killer and saw another human being. The Des Moines man stared through the tinted glass into the death chamber, almost close enough […]