These old-timey photographs made me wonder what was going on right now back home: in a word, PLENTY. For starters, it looks like The Nailmeister has some competition! That seems to be about it, actually, other than school starting, but this week's top story in the Ackley World Journal is a very thoughtful and in-depth look at one aggrieved and upheaved young woman's path to fulfillment. I would encourage you not to be thrown by the nearly incomprehensible writing style (I suspect that some stray methyl methacrylic has eaten the writer's brain and even pulled the byline right off) but to persevere like Domanic and read it all the way through.