My friend Connor was going to college in Wisconsin, and I was going to go to Iowa State, so we decided to go on a last bender before we moved away from each other. He knew some pretty wild kids over i
Nothing can prepare you for some shocks in life. Like finding out you're adopted. I don't know if there is a good way to tell a 17-year-old, but my parents chose a very bad way. We were sitt
My mom's sister died when I was only seven years old. I didn't know her that well, so it didn't hit me that hard, but when I heard that my old friend Connor had died, I nearly lost it.
We lived on the edge of the tornado belt, so we got tornados less frequently that people in other parts of Iowa. In fact, I didn't experience one until I was thirteen. All the old sirens from the