We should resist the urge to wall ourselves off from what’s painful, and instead take improv’s “yes, and” approach, writes Heidi Stevens.
Heidi Stevens: Yes, 2025 is off to a heartbreaking start. And we can help heal it
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Heidi Stevens: His wife told him to jump in the lake. More than 4 years later, he still is. ‘There’s just a lot of joy in jumping in the water’
In the summer of 2020, when a pandemic gripped the globe and civil unrest filled city streets and dread clouded the air like a low-hanging fog, Dan O’Conor would get up every morning, drive to a parking lot at Montrose Beach and stick a hand-scrawled sign inside his windshield: WENT TO JUMP IN THE LAKE. The sign was to keep his car from getting towed. The lake was to keep his sanity. Both …
Heidi Stevens: Happiness, hope and some hurdles — 24 things from 2024 that I’m carrying into the new year
Here are some of the things from the past year, in no particular order, that I’m taking with me into 2025, writes Heidi Stevens.
Heidi Stevens: Holiday pajamas and police escorts — the infuriating contrast at Abundant Life Christian School
I’m trying to reconcile the playfulness of pajama day with to the flattened fury of the police officer escorting kids in their jammies to safety.
Heidi Stevens: A son’s death and a father’s loving determination to keep his true, unvarnished story alive
Craig Mindrum hopes his friends never stop asking about Jonathan or sharing stories about him. That’s much more helpful than explanations.
Heidi Stevens: ‘I thought my dad was quite the woodsman.’ Pretending to chop down a tree and other tricks to keep the holidays magical
One of my favorite things about the holidays is the lengths that grown-ups go to so kids can feel wonder and magic and awe.
Heidi Stevens: University of North Texas bans words ‘race,’ ‘gender’ from course titles. What will the free speech on campus folks have to say?
The move ought to send a chill down the spine of every person who cares about free speech and free expression, writes Heidi Stevens.
Heidi Stevens: Saying goodbye to a childhood home that was so much more than a house
We don’t talk enough in our culture about the emotional weight of saying goodbye to a house. A house changes hands. But it becomes part of you.
Heidi Stevens: ‘Not aspiring to be humble’ is a rallying cry for this moment, but let’s not stop there
I want to focus on a different quote from Harris, which is less pithy but no less powerful. “We have our family by blood, and then we have our family by love.”
Heidi Stevens: Rolling back comprehensive sex ed fails to prepare young people for the world they actually live in
Whatever words we’re cringing about our kids hearing from a certified educator, we’ll cringe into the fetal position if we see the results of those words typed into Google.