So, this is it — my last column.
I kind of miss the George W. Bush years.
After 4½ years of engagement with members of QCTimes.com and Quadsville.com, I think I know my virtual community pretty well. Therefore, I’m a…
“A View From a Bridge” won this month’s Signs of Spring photo contest, and what a view it is.
I thought I could get my daughter good Thursday morning. I rushed into her room, tore back her blankets and told her I’d overslept and she onl…
Almost half of our regular Quadsville and QCTimes.com contributors are in favor of pulling back the veil of anonymity on the sites.
Well I was born in a small town,
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Which is more important: getting re-elected or making sure your state doesn’t go belly up?
If only online comment sections could be run like debate tournaments. I do my best to moderate the discussion on qctimes.com and quadsville.co…
The craze came to Quadsville after the Iowa Board of Pharmacy recommended Wednesday that the state legislature reclassify marijuana and appoin…
Mutual distrust. Dishonest words. Faulty hearing. Lazy thinking.
I’m still on a bit of a high from Monday night’s Quadsville meet-up. It was such a great time and a terrific turnout. There wasn’t much room f…
My apologies if this month’s photo contest theme has a ditty from “The Sound of Music” perpetually running through your head. Hopefully, it’s …
This week in Quadsville saw the arrival of a new member of our community and the departure of a longtime contributor whose posts always genera…
I've never had a dog, and cats don't take too kindly to dress-up play, so puppies in costume crack me up.
My project for this weekend is figuring out how to make a mummy costume for my 8-year-old.
Dementia can be so tragic.
My daughter walked into my bedroom Thursday morning and announced, "I don't want to do that thing we were doing yesterday. I just can't take o…
Do poor kids deserve birthday parties? Maybe, but they'd better not serve sweets to their guests, according to some commenters on qctimes.com.
"Can we have a reasoned conversation about end-of-life care?"
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Thanks so much to all who stopped by our Quadsville meet-up/tweet-up Tuesday night at Rookie's. We had a blast. Julie Abdel-Fattah, Robbi and …
Marismom's post last weekend about the controversy surrounding the president's speech to schoolchildren had broken the 50 comment mark by the …
"Mom, why do you keep wearing that shirt?" my 7-year-old daughter asked me on Friday.
We had 26 entries in our First Day of School photo contest - all of them precious memories.
My first indication that things were going to get ugly in the health care reform debate came on July 24. Naturally, it arrived in my e-mail inbox.
I still remember the outfit my mother put me in for the first day of kindergarten. In fact, I still have it (she didn't throw a darn thing out).
Reading your comments about the Cash for Clunkers program brought back memories of my first car - a 1976 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight.
