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Mopping Up: 2014 in Review
So here we are, December 31, 2014, the last day of the final year of my first half-century. How did it go? I documented my life in 2014 publicly via 55 blog posts here and at Indie Moines — which I...
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DSM to ORD
Assuming all goes well with final house sale closing tomorrow morning, tonight will be our last night as full-time residents of Des Moines, Iowa. We will be in temporary housing in Chicago until...
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1,000
WordPress tells me that this is the 1,000th post on J. Eric Smith Dot Com. Huttah! I’m guessing that there aren’t a lot of solo blogs out there that hit this mark — though in reality, I’ve actually...
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Farewell, Metroland?
For the first time in 38 years, Albany-based alternative newsweekly Metroland will not publish a new edition this week, following the seizure of its offices and property by the New York State...
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My friend Kenny (who once made the observation “Centipedes are the spiders of the bathtub” in a perfectly contextual fashion) posed a question on Twitter this morning: Is there a word for when...
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Marcia and I moved to Iowa a little over four years ago, at the peak of 2012’s caucus season. Within a month of our arrival, Marcia was interviewed and quoted in an internationally-syndicated Reuters...
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