I have been amused, to some extent, with the recent rash of letters detailing what Jesus' position on the health-care reform bill would be.
Nov 01, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
My project for this weekend is figuring out how to make a mummy costume for my 8-year-old.
Oct 25, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
My daughter walked into my bedroom Thursday morning and announced, "I don't want to do that thing we were doing yesterday. I just can't take only being able to have popcorn for a snack."
Oct 09, 2009 | 4:30 pm | Loading…
Do poor kids deserve birthday parties? Maybe, but they'd better not serve sweets to their guests, according to some commenters on qctimes.com.
Oct 04, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
"Can we have a reasoned conversation about end-of-life care?"
Sep 25, 2009 | 8:15 pm | Loading…
Thanks so much to all who stopped by our Quadsville meet-up/tweet-up Tuesday night at Rookie's. We had a blast. Julie Abdel-Fattah, Robbi and I gave a farewell toast to Patrick Swayze with Dirty (Dancing) Martinis. Stephanie De Pasquale a…
Sep 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
Marismom's post last weekend about the controversy surrounding the president's speech to schoolchildren had broken the 50 comment mark by the time Barack Obama addressed the nation's youth Tuesday morning.
Sep 13, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
"Mom, why do you keep wearing that shirt?" my 7-year-old daughter asked me on Friday.
Sep 06, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
We had 26 entries in our First Day of School photo contest - all of them precious memories.
Aug 30, 2009 | 3:30 am | Loading…
My first indication that things were going to get ugly in the health care reform debate came on July 24. Naturally, it arrived in my e-mail inbox.
Aug 16, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
I still remember the outfit my mother put me in for the first day of kindergarten. In fact, I still have it (she didn't throw a darn thing out).
Aug 10, 2009 | 10:15 am | Loading…
Reading your comments about the Cash for Clunkers program brought back memories of my first car - a 1976 Oldsmobile Ninety-Ei…
Aug 02, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
I spent last Sunday evening poring over all the school supply sale inserts in the Sunday Quad-City Times. I came up with a strategy that would let me get everything for under $20 with trips to only two stores. My second-grader and I went Thursday and the grand total was $18.81. I saved al…
Jul 26, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
I'm back from vacation and happy to report I survived two 17-hour car rides with my 7-year-old. Turns out she's a good little road-tripper as long as she has the backseat to herself.
Jul 19, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
I'm so proud of our Quadsville community. For a group of mostly virtual friends, they sure do take care of each other - even newcomers.
Jul 02, 2009 | 3:35 pm | Loading…
They say deaths come in threes, but this celebrity death trifecta came more swiftly than most.
Jun 28, 2009 | 1:00 am | Loading…
Davenport's two at-large aldermen, Ian Frink and Gene Meeker, took the town hall to our virtual community Thursday and answered constituents' questions during a live chat on www.Quadsville.com. The two fielded questions on everything from sidewalks and infrastructure to new parks and budg…
Jun 21, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
It is time, I think, to resurrect our Bix or Bust group on www.Quadsville.com. Everyone is out of school (or almost out), the weather is nice, and people are starting to get serious about their training.
Jun 05, 2009 | 1:25 pm | Loading…
Last week, reader John Douglas prompted me to ask Quadsvillagers: What does it mean to be a good neighbor?
May 29, 2009 | 2:05 pm | Loading…
Melissa Coulter is the mayor of the virtual community Quadsville.com. She has worked at the Quad-City Times since December 2005, is a member of the newspaper's editorial board and designs pages for the features department. In the autumn of 2008, she spent six weeks working at Der Standard, a daily newspaper in Vienna, Austria, as a U.S.-Austria Journalism Exchange Fellow. She is a graduate of Augustana College and the mother of a precocious redhead.
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