Aug 21, 2012

One thing I didn’t realize I missed while living in the San Francisco Bay Area until I moved back to Des Moines was the  cicada song. Yes, I know that for some, these cicadas are locusts who make a shrill noise. They technically aren’t locusts, and the shrill noise is in the ears of the beholder. But still, I get that some people don’t like them....

Aug 15, 2012

My first time going to the Iowa State Fair was on a visit to Des Moines in 2009. I am familiar with the county fair and state fair concept, having lived in the U.S. for over a decade now. However, I quickly learned that the Iowa State Fair is in a category unto itself. I don’t know how really to describe it. A carnival metropolis of people, animals, tourists,...

Aug 8, 2012

Kiley is up to bat with her Top 4 columns from her time writing for Des Moines is NOT Boring. She featured on the fashi0n industry in Des Moines, which was a industry she was already writing on over at her personal blog A Sequin Dress at Breakfast. 1. Worn: I have a soft spot for the first post I wrote, as I was so excited to be a part of the DMINB team You...

May 8, 2012

It’s hard to believe that an entire year has gone by since I moved back to Des Moines from the San Francisco Bay Area. In so many ways it still feels like I just got here. Maybe it’s because of the mild winter and early spring that the time seems to have gone by so quickly. Or maybe it’s the fact that my wife and I are in the raising-a-baby time warp in...

Sep 2, 2011

There were a couple pokes at Iowa from the national level lately that I think most everyone handled quite well.  When Stephen Colbert ran a 5 minute comedy segment based on the “Des Moines Fat Cats” banning his Super Pac commercial, we laughed because it was pretty damn funny.  Better yet, the antagonist of his bit, WOI-tv Channel 5, was able to...