This was my submission to my new favorite podcast My Favorite Murderer. However, this is definitely my least favorite murder. On November 2nd, 2021 in my hometown of Fairfield Iowa. Nohema Graber who was a high school Spanish teacher was brutally murdered by two of her high school students, Jeremy Goodale and Willard Miller. She…

                                                     My Mother’s breakup Journey        Over the last 9 years, my father had been commuting from our small town of Fairfield to Cedar Rapids. He rented a…

Vaughn Von and Jean go camping        My new Tinder date was named Vaughn. His parents couldn’t agree on how the name “Vaughn” should be spelled so they compromised and made his first name “Vaughn” and his middle name “Von”. He couldn’t have been over 5’3,  100 pounds, but quickly proved himself to…

     After my Vaughn tragedy I had officially lost my adventure buddy. Granted the one adventure we took had been an absolute failure, but all the same he had all of the good camping equipment and I enjoyed him as a general partner in life. The summer-like all of them quickly vanished like a…

Inca Trail: Day 1 of 4            My mother and I started out our journey in old school bus picking up the five other members who we would be hiking the Inca Trail with. I wasn’t aware that this was going to be more of an arranged 4-day marriage with forced physical exertion. We were…