First, as a paid subscriber, I would like to thank you for investing in my work. Second, I’d like to invite you to the first monthly Zoom meeting of the Iowa Writers Collaborative. The meeting is tomorrow, Friday, October 28. We are calling it the “Office Lounge.”
Chuck Offenburger explained the inspiration for the name “Office Lounge.”
Each columnist in the collaborative will briefly introduce themselves and the concept behind their column. Then the floor will be open for Q&A.
The call will start at noon and end at 1 pm. I’ve put the Zoom link behind a paywall below because to join the meeting, you have to be a paid subscriber to at least one of our newsletters.
One of the other things I would like to share with paid subscribers each month is what I’m working on. I have an attention deficit disorder, so I am most comfortable working on multiple writing projects at the same time. Most actually get completed!
I’m about to publish a piece on a trip my wife, daughter and I took to “The Bins” of Goodwill in Des Moines. It was fascinating.
I’m also doing a behind-the-scenes look at drownings at Lake Red Rock. Seems like there are one or two a year, and I’ve been covering them for nearly 20 years.
I have a piece pending on saving the Iowa caucuses, and one on climate-smart agriculture.
I’ve written on immigration reform before here, in the New York Times, TIME, and the Kansas City Star. I think I have a good idea on bi-partisan immigration reform and will try to drop it into the big media right after the midterms if they’ll have it.
And then there is my day job!
It sure looks like I’m busy, but sometimes it feels like I should be doing so much more! If I could focus for more than ten minutes at a time, I probably could. Yet, while ADD is most often thought of as a burden—it is a “disorder” after all, over the years I’ve come to accept it as a “gift” as I think sometimes I put things together in ways other people don’t, and sometimes that writing is my most successful.
Anyway, thanks again for investing in my work, and I hope to see you tomorrow.