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Spring Baby

We had been living in Bloomington, Indiana, while my husband Scott finished graduate school in Classics. Around the time he got his first...

Coming To Terms with Thanksgiving

Being thankful sounds so simple. In some ways it is. But it is also a conclusion that requires an assessment of value. It is a decision....

Independence

Many words in the English language are diverted and assaulted regularly, either benignly or malignantly, and none more so than the word...

What is the Essence of Life? To Serve Others and Do Good: Aristotle

By Michelle Niedens When I was about 12, I recall vividly my mother leading a charge to save the junior high bandshell. “History can...

"Hope - The Thing With Feathers"

by Michelle Niedens Emily Dickinson wrote a poem that has framed much of my life. On the whole, her poems have never been among my...