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Two or More Living Together
“This is lichen,” Cillian the botanist told the Summer School ecology class on Inishbofin Island in Ireland. He pointed to a rock covered with the…
Apr 13
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March 2024
For the Birds
Kestrels have big compound eyes that can see ultraviolet light, identifying the trail of urine from a mouse--all the better for the wire hawk to swoop…
Mar 28
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Lost in the Moors
Streaks of red stretched across the horizon, the sun beginning to set, the fields meeting the sky in a tight weave. I drove the three visiting Irish…
Mar 14
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Loom
Spools of thread—each in different shades of black, blue, red, purple, and green—hung from pegs on their wooden racks on the wall. Outside, the light…
Mar 2
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February 2024
Mardi Gras in the Land of Saints and Scholars
The waves propelled up and over Margaret’s cottage, then fell down again on the stucco walls, the walls Margaret whitewashed every spring before the…
Feb 13
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Dancing Rabbits
The entire Yutzy family—over 200 of them—were huddled inside the barn, out of the cold, stationed on benches, waiting for the auction to begin. Parents…
Feb 1
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January 2024
Spirits
My parents were draft dodgers. My father stayed in the Navy Reserve after serving in the South Pacific in World War II. Upon his release, my parents…
Jan 18
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From "An Outlook on Winter"
by LIberty Hyde Bailey
Jan 11
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December 2023
A Night of Craic and a Jug of Poitín
Often, I make my annual visit to Ireland soon after Christmas. At that time in Iowa, the snow is usually drifting shut the pasture gate, the wind…
Dec 30, 2023
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Adeste Fideles in Chinese
Listen to Mary Swander read her Christmas story. They came in threes—like the Magi—two buggies and a sleigh filled with three generations of Amish to…
Dec 14, 2023
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November 2023
Join the AgArts Fun!
And Give a Gift to Further Our Work
Nov 30, 2023
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Happy Thanksgiving and an Invitation
Tomorrow! On Friday, November 24 at noon, paid subscribers to any member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative are welcome to join a Zoom call with Ellen…
Nov 23, 2023
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