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Nick of Time

In the Nick of Time, Dec. 2, 2010

by jmagdefrau on December 1, 2010

Thanksgiving dinner cooking secrets It dawned on me, as I can best recollect, that this was the first Thanksgiving I spent away from the family. Thankfully new, and old, friends here in Philadelphia came together to make the holiday one of friendship, fellowship and good tidings. The Saturday before Thanksgiving, Lisa’s cohorts at Wharton held [...]

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In the Nick of Time, Nov. 18, 2010

by jmagdefrau on November 16, 2010

Lookin’ sexy for my lady As everyone knows, the first rule to being an exceptional houseboy is not having a warm meal waiting for your woman, it’s not cleaning house, it’s not taking masseuse lessons, no, it is looking sexy for your miss when she returns home from a long day at the office. No [...]

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In the Nick of Time – Nov. 11, 2010

November 10, 2010 Journal Tribune

Welcome to Philly On Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 (election day) I packed my meager belongings, a batch of homemade cookies made by my mom and a plucky attitude and moved to Philadelphia, Pa. For a bit of requisite backstory, my girlfriend Lisa is attending the University of Pennsylvania for the next two years and I [...]

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Nick of Time – Nov. 4, 2010

November 2, 2010 Journal Tribune

Leaving Marengo Well, everything somehow got packed up and shipped out. A quick summary of the events of the past week: I am moving to Philadelphia to be with my girlfriend Lisa who is going to school at the University of Pennsylvania. I left this all behind to go be with her, despite not having [...]

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A state taken for granted

September 14, 2010 Journal Tribune

It is easy to complain about Iowa. Usually it is the weather. It’s too hot, muggy and humid. It rains too much. Or it is too cold, with freezing temperatures that chills your morning coffee in seconds and causes windshields to implode. There’s the ice, the sleet, the hail and the tornado sirens. Then there [...]

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In the Nick of Time – Aug. 26, 2010

August 24, 2010 Journal Tribune

Preparing for fall camping My girlfriend Lisa and her Ivy League pals out in Philadelphia are on a wilderness retreat this weekend. The University of Pennsylvania is sending all of its MBA students to a cabin in New York for two days to play get-to-know-ya games and eat s’mores. Lisa didn’t want to go. She [...]

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Nick of Time – Aug. 19, 2010

August 17, 2010 Journal Tribune

Stage Fright Over the course of my life I have been struck with random bouts of stage fright. The weird part is that there have been plenty of examples where I haven’t been bothered by stage fright one bit. It all started back in the sixth grade at Hansen Elementary School in Cedar Falls. For [...]

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Nick of Time – Aug. 12, 2010

August 10, 2010 Nick of Time

A fine send off The send off for the Iowa National Guard held Sunday, Aug. 9, at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids was a rising occasion. The seats were filled with friends, family and supporters of our brave troops as they prepare to leave for Afghanistan. Reports said that 2,800 members of the [...]

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Nick of Time, Aug. 5, 2010

August 3, 2010 Journal Tribune

A Philadelphia story Boy oh boy is moving tough. I was on “vacation” this past week helping my girlfriend Lisa move into her new apartment in Philadelphia. She moved from Tokyo to attend the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business for the next two years. Because she came from Tokyo and the 14 hour [...]

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Guten Apetit

July 13, 2010 Nick of Time

For somebody who likes to eat as much as I do, there is nothing like spending the afternoon touring some of the best restaurants in Iowa and sampling scrumptious morsels that cannot be found anywhere else. Such was the case last Thursday when Amana Colonies Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACCVB) Executive Director Kristie Wetjen invited [...]

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