This week is the seventh wedding anniversary for me and my wife. That’s a pretty good number, but 2016 also marks 20 years since we started dating. I’m going to focus on that one for a bit. Just to be clear, we haven’t been dating for 20 years. Even though I married my high school… Read More 20 years with the love of my life
I’ve reached the 1/3 point of my challenge, the point in any marathon where each runner thinks “I’ve got like 18 miles more to go! Why did I sign up for this? There better be good snacks at the end.” Luckily, I’m drinking beer and not running. There’s still a lot more drinking to go,… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 119-125: Suicide Beers
My beer consumption has slowed a little bit, and these blogs have gotten more spaced out as a result. I feel like I’ve done some quality drinking recently to try to catch things up. Hopefully, these will be posted on a slightly more regular basis moving forward. For this entry, I’m covering some breweries in… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 113-118: Beers of the Cedar Valley
Ava, my four-year-old daughter, never stops asking questions. She asks an insane amount of questions. For awhile I’ve thought it would be a good idea to keep track of every question she asked over the course of a day. I was wrong. She asked too many questions. She asked questions faster than I could write… Read More Do you know why the praying mantis was dead? A day’s worth of questions from Ava
I don’t really have a good intro for this post. I kept coming up with a lede, but it felt too forced. So I’m just kind of typing words until it feels like I’ve set this up well enough. Is this enough? No, too soon. There, that’s probably good. Beer 107: Millstream Hoppy Hour White… Read More 365 Iowa Beers: 107-112: Flix, Forks & Cheese
July was a sci-fi themed challenge. I enjoyed most of what I read this month, though there were two books I didn’t make it all the way through. I do plan to finish some day, one I just started late in the month, and the other I was reading on my iPad, which I kind… Read More My July comics reading list
Hey, another milestone number of beers. I’m now about 27% through my challenge, though that doesn’t sound as exciting as “one hundred.” To mark the occasion, I’ve recorded Ava singing the complete “99 Bottles of Beer.” So read beer 100, then start the video for the complete experience. I’m kidding, I’m not cruel enough to… Read More 365 Iowa beers: Beer 100! (Also 101-106)
Sorry for the delay in beer updates. After the binging of Des Moines Beer Week, I slowed down for a little bit. Plus, I got some freelance opportunities (some worked well, some not so much), so I had to shift my focus for a bit to things that pay. Maybe I’ll get paid to write… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 93-99: Back to drinking
Back in 2010, former Saturday Night Live star Rob Schneider was coming to Des Moines to do a stand-up comedy show at the Funny Bone. I was offered the opportunity to interview him. I wasn’t especially excited, mostly because I have a terrible track record of getting comedians to be funny. I’ve had some great conversations… Read More That time I talked to Rob Schneider about Harvey Pekar
I fell a little behind in getting this beer rundown written up. This assortment of beers is from visits to breweries during beer week, as well as a stop by the Iowa Craft Beer Tent at the Des Moines Arts Festival. I know that last one isn’t part of Beer Week, but it felt like… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 82-92 Des Moines Beer Week Part 2
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