Historical White-Washing?
Just south of Dubuque, Iowa on US-52 is Mines of Spain, a state park which, despite driving by innumerable times since first moving to Iowa in 1972, I had never…
Green Island Bottoms
Officially the Green Island Wildlife Management Area, it is (was?) the Green Island Bottoms to locals. Though I grew up in and around Green Island, a place where people fished…
Oh My Hawks
John Raoux / AP Doris Kearns Goodwin is a life-long, long-suffering Red Sox fan who experienced many heart-wrenching losses over her years. I saw an interview where she described trying…
Marching Band Nostalgia #3
I recently posted about my high school marching band days and then found myself watching a Iowa girls' basketball district playoff game at the high school gym; however, since my…
Boredom Averted
Uninterested in the scintillating girls' basketball game just feet away, this little girl found ways to pass the time. Image Credits Video © 2026, Scott C. Sosna, all rights reserved.
Security Through Stupidity
Nostalgia and happenstance had me visit my former high school in Miles, Iowa to watch a girls' high school basketball game. Much had changed since I last visited 10+ years…
Ghosts of Radio Shack
After its 2015 and 2017 Chapter 11 bankruptcies and the sale of its intellectual property in November 2020, Radio Shack today is strictly an online retailer. Innumerable articles attempt to…
Random Learnings #69
Growing up in Iowa, all I knew of Kossuth County was its unusual size: essentially double the size of other counties in the state, it's the reason Iowa has 99…
Unique Hotel
My wife and I visited Iowa City, Iowa last week to attend a University of Iowa women's basketball game, a rather bad loss to Minnesota. Our hotel was Graduate by…
Marching Band Nostalgia
The peaked in high school meme describes those whose personal popularity and successes post-high school pale in comparison to the best four years of my life. BMOC, stud athletes, cheerleaders…