(That) was a hard year.

We always ask patrons what's going on. We have a small percentage of chronically overdue books.

It adds up to a substantial amount. We tell them it's a charitable donation.

I am excited about getting to play each of the Iowa teams - Drake, Iowa and Northern Iowa - this year.

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.

I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.