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A wasp flies into my water bottle.

I do not know this.  I bring

The water bottle inside.  The wasp

Climbs up to the lip,

Pulses his wings

A couple times, and then starts

Flying around the house.

He flies

Saturday, May 14  is Iowa Museum Day! With the weather gods dashing any hopes for a warm and sunny weekend, museum-hopping might be just the ticket.  Many are offering free or reduced admission, and some have special one-time only events.

Take the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, for starters.Free admission and balloons for the kids. Here’s what you can do: watch vintage trucking films! See antique trucks

Finding Fairfield is a short documentary I made and features the real and funny stories of how Savannah Quinn, David Paterson read about Fairfield in Mother Earth News, Troy Van Beek googled 'enlightenment' while working in Africa and found Maharishi University of Management, and the band Truckstop Souvenir and musicians Arthur Lee Land and Carol Lee fell in love with Fairfield after performing

 

I just back from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines last night. It is  a week-long affair that runs through November 11 at the best movie theater in Iowa, the Fleur Cinema and Cafe. 

It is becoming for independent movies what the Iowa caucuses are to politics - an important launch pad.The Iowa film-making community may be small but they are a committed, passionate bunch that

I've just been on the phone with my wife discussing the movie Eat Pray Love or, as the local cinema in Ottumwa where she saw it billed it, Eat Prey Love, which I assume is the arachnid version.

I haven't seen the movie yet but I read the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert on which it is based. It describes the adventures of a young writer (herself) who, on the rebound from a bad relationship