If you’ve been around here a while, you know how this works: I write about whatever’s actually on my mind. Yankees baseball. Iowa weather. Small-town life. The occasional story I probably shouldn’t tell out loud. None of it is behind a paywall, and that’s not going to change.
But “free to read” isn’t the same as free to make. Keeping this blog running costs real money every month — site hosting, the domain name, and the email tools that get the newsletter to your inbox. And a lot of what I write doesn’t happen at my kitchen table. It happens on the road: gas money crisscrossing Iowa, tickets to the games and fairs I cover, and the occasional motel room when a story takes me farther than a day trip.
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That’s what this page is for. If the blog has ever been worth a few bucks to you — if a post made you laugh, made you think, or just made a long drive go a little faster — you can put some gas in the tank below. One-time, monthly, or yearly, whatever works for you. Every dollar goes straight back into this thing.
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