I don’t know what I expected you to do, Mom, how I expected you to react when I said those words no parent wants to hear from their teenage daughter, but you surprised me. “I think I might be pregnant,” I said. You were standing...
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Kathie Yount
- January 22, 2020 in Columnists
Suicide baiting — they cheered while my son jumped
UPDATE: Kathie Yount recently passed after a hard-fought battle with cancer. This was her first column for us, driven by the cruel injustice of the death of her only son, Dylan. On this desolating occasion, it seems right to remember that Kathie was a fighter...
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Kathie Yount
- January 22, 2020 in Columnists
PamPURRed by the best — the last story from our beloved Kathie Yount
After my son’s burial is over and the hurt has supposedly been laid to rest, and most importantly, after everyone thinks the suicidal impulse has cooled in me for at least right now, I am let out at the edge of the road to navigate...
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JL Nash
- January 21, 2020 in Columnists
Teaching — inspiration becomes vocation
Did I do it to make myself feel better? Was it simply the sacrifice one makes for monetary reimbursement? Was it a vocation? Did I simply follow in footsteps trod even deeper than one might imagine? Through many steps and an assortment of adventures and...
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Alexia Carter
- January 20, 2020 in Columnists
Thanks, Mom for the gift of choice
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Terri Connett
Columnist - January 16, 2020 in Columnists
#IowaSoWhite
I'm not blaming Iowa for the pastiness of the seventh Democratic Debate, held in Des Moines on January 14th. But it sure didn't help.
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Maya Stiles Parsons Spier
Columnist, Editor-in-Chief - January 6, 2020 in Columnists
Getting impeached? Start a war!
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it’s a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation. Charles Ruff It’s a ploy, people. Trust me. The attack that killed Iranian General Soleimani was literally nothing more...
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Andy Jones
Columnist - December 31, 2019 in Columnists
Turning the page on 2019
Trending this morning on Twitter was the phrase “page 364 of 365.” It’s almost time to turn the final page at the end of a long year, one which caps off a long decade. My mom, who was born in the 1930s, is about to...
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JL Nash
- December 23, 2019 in Columnists
A Christmas tale
How we need another soul to cling to. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath I have a house and the house is by the sea — well, it’s a block away and we endeavour to visit it every day. We means my husband and...
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Terri Connett
Columnist - December 20, 2019 in Columnists
California screamin’
The gloves were off at the sixth Democratic debate held in Los Angeles. Current Iowa darling, Pete Buttigieg was hit with verbal attacks, mostly from the two women on the stage.
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