The level of excitement shared by 30-somethings across my social media over the last few weeks has been unprecedented and bizarre, especially given that the reason is a smattering of press appearances and rumors surrounding a group of five men, all aged 40+, who were popular 20 years ago. Last week, the 1990s/early 2000s hit...
Things are different now. I no longer wake up gradually to the sound of the fall breeze rustling leaves outside my open window. I wake up to my children calling to each other from their beds. I no longer sit reading for hours in the library. Instead, I read for a short 30 minutes before...
Dear Editor, Within the last year or two, students have, in these pages and on social media platforms, expressed their frustration with the “excessive” number of all-campus emails they receive daily. Indeed, we members of the faculty and staff often find ourselves frustrated at the number of mass emails we receive daily. The Student Activities...
Last spring, my husband and I, along with my brother and his girlfriend, made our way from our house over to the grassy field where the year’s most anticipated event was underway. Centralhallapalooza, I hoped, would be just as delightful as it had been when I was a student, and perhaps even better, because alumni...
I will never forget the look on my husband’s face as he helped carry his grandmother’s casket to a hearse waiting outside a little Catholic church in a tiny town in Nebraska on a cold, windy November afternoon. Marcella Svendsen, my mother-in-law’s mother, died of lung cancer in 2010. She smoked for much of her life....