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DANIEL P. FINNEY

1217 24th St.

Apt. 36

Des Moines, IA 50311

515-371-9453 (Texts welcome.)

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My very best stacked paragraphs

  • A special delivery: Love after tragedy brings baby into world
  • ‘Reuben Spider-Man,’ 4, finds his way home with a little police help
  • ‘An extraordinarily gifted storyteller’: Former Register writer Ken Fuson dies at 63
  • ‘The other Bob Woodward,’ a beloved Drake University journalism professor, dies at 82
  • Iowa World War II vet still finds joy of a hard day’s work slicing meat at 95
  • Ticked-off basketball fans led to the invention of first time clock for high-school sports
  • Crime novels, comics, plays and movies: Prolific Iowa author Max Allan Collins writes them all
  • How a California crow named Clover made Jenni Boonjakuakul central Iowa’s ‘bird lady’
  • From advice to recipes, Iowa woman retires after 70-year career as one of nation’s longest-serving newspaper columnists
  • The day KCCI’s Weather Beacon went dark for good
  • World Series: Iowa Hall of Famer Bob Feller reached his final Fall Classic 65 years ago
  • Meet the Iowan the world just learned helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II
  • A dirty hit, a broken jaw and the day Drake and Oklahoma A&M changed college football forever
  • How 5 ‘mistakes’ by Iowan Ken Quinn ultimately made the World Food Prize world-class
  • Iowa mom who lost son in Afghanistan copes by making masks to fight coronavirus spread
  • Ballet performance outside senior housing raises spirits of residents quarantined by COVID-19
  • An Iowa couple with COVID-19: She lives; he died
  • Betty Lou and ‘House With the Magic Window’ entertained Iowans for 43 years on WOI-TV
  • Whatever happened to ‘Machine Gun’ Molly Bolin, the Iowa prep who signed the first women’s pro contract?
  • Over 25 years into her softball career, an Iowa legend will play for Italian national team at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo
  • That time an Iowa girls’ basketball star was drafted out of high school by the NBA’s Warriors
  • Jean Seberg: Iowa actress robbed of Cinderella story by FBI harassment
  • Pope John Paul II’s Iowa visit at 40: Untold tales of cracked statues, cigarette deals and a crowd-surfing baby
  • ‘I’m glad to be alive, but I lost my husband’
  • BARBIE, KEN CALL IT QUITS
  • Carlisle teacher digs into unsolved murder of officer
  • March 15, 1993: The first paid paragraphs

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It takes damn little to keep us amused at Camp Daniel. Damn little. #kitt #knightrider
Next step in recovery from #kneesurgery.
In recovery. #kneesurgery
I suppose it’s too much to ask for the Jeep bed. #iowalutheranhospital #kneesurgery
So school is happening. $200 worth of books for two English classes to get my language arts endorsement. Another book is on the way for one of my education courses. #teacher #drakeuniversity #gradschool
Pool exercise go bag. #pooltime Day 3.
Marilyn Monroe #pezdispenser courtesy @slakingfool.
Pool 2021. Day 1.
If you were a girl I knew in school between 1985 and 1991 and I drew #Underdog on your folder, it meant I had a crush on you. In retrospect, I think I could have been clearer in my messaging.
If you don’t know why a #deadpool as a dinosaur, Dinopool, bobble head is the most hilarious thing to me, we are probably not close friends.
My name is Inferno. I’m a Transformer who changes from a robot into a fire truck. I don’t know why the called me Inferno. I fight fires. An inferno is an especially bad fire fighter. The whole thing has mad me insecure and confused. My name is the thing that I fight. My names is the thing that I fight. You don’t know the hell I’ve lived. #transformers
#hulk I love him when he’s angry.
A badge? I don’t need no stinking badge — oh, hi, Mr. Principal. I got my badge right here. #practicum
Someday I’ll learn to travel light.
My former girlfriend once found an green Army man buried in her garden. I asked her what she did with it. She said she reviewed it. I was aghast. I hate to see old toys cast away. A few days later she brought the Army man to me cleaned from the dishwasher. He’s kept watch at my bedside every night since. He’s dusty and faded now. My friend worked in her garden a lot during the pandemic and she found three comrades of my green Army man. Now they’re a small unit by my bedside lamp, which happens to be a model of the Eiffel Tower. Maybe these men were liberating it. I’m just happy their adventure continues.
It takes damn little to keep us entertained here at Camp Daniel. Damn little. #rickandmorty
In case you had any doubt who I am cheering for today, let it be known I’ll always cheer for a pirate with a feather in his cap, a knife in his teeth and the confidence to wear burnt orange and creamsicle. #superbowl #buccaneers
This is an alternate Washington Nationals cap. I’m wearing today in advance of the #inauguration and because my friend @megan.gogerty is a Nationals fan. Megan and I are divided over baseball. I am a #Yankees fan. I hope one day she will wear a Yankees cap in solidarity and we can bring healing to our divided nation.
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