Nick Eakins
I don't even doubt for a minute that our earliest memories are always rooted in our sense of smell because the very first thing I can ever remember is sitting on my dad's lap while he was smoking a...
The first songs I can say I definitely remember were played on the old KLEE AM station of Ottumwa. I was no more than 3 or 4 years old when I heard the 1950's rock sounds of Bill Haley,...
The planet is getting smaller all the time.
The cigarette butt tossed aside carelessly in Oregon brings on asthma attacks here.
The pork loin you ate today was produced at the expense of the water departments of Des Moines and Ottumwa.
The...
Today I'm going to talk about good, good food. I am just as passionate about good food and music as I am about politics. I'll get to music at another time.
Just like my politics, my taste in food can...
Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Democratic candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, made an 11th-hour visit to Perry Wednesday afternoon, delivering her husband's message of electability on the eve of the Iowa Caucuses.
Biden is good at what...
About 30 people attended Dr. Dennis Goldford's lecture at the Perry Public Library Thursday evening. It was a non-partisan event, but it seemed as if most of the audience were Democrats. Either that or they were decidedly subdued Republicans.
For...
Over the last 40 years, I have really become very weary of one superhero movie after another.
I have lost track of just how many times Superman has been reimagined since portrayed by the late Christopher Reeves. Truth be known,...
For a while Sunday evening, I felt a little like it was the 1980s all over again.
The meet and greet with Julián Castro was just the right size by me. I became a bit spoiled on account of being...
For a very long time I was extremely proud of the Iowa Caucuses as the first-in-the-nation presidential event. These days I look at the Caucuses as more of a political dog-and-pony show.
Indeed, the Iowa Caucuses were good for the...
If the only two Grateful Dead songs you know and like are “Truckin'” and “Touch of Grey,” then you are no Deadhead.
If you think sporting long hair and smoking dope makes you a hippie, then you know nothing of...