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Category: Heidi Stevens
Heidi Stevens: Banning DEI and race-based programs in schools chips away at the very mission of education
To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity — inside classrooms and all across campuses.
Heidi Stevens: ‘What a ride! I love you.’ They were married for 72 years and died a day apart, holding hands until the end
Marie and Kevin Mayer’s five children found a drawer full of love letters — mostly from their dad to their mom.
Heidi Stevens: Even amid this cloud of cruelty, Sen. Tuberville’s comments about beating kids with ADHD stand out
Tuberville lamented what he says is an overreliance on medication to treat ADHD. He lost credibility when he mentioned whipping a child.
Heidi Stevens: We can’t go it alone despite America’s notion of rugged individualism
We’re living in a country where needing help is for losers and providing it is for suckers, writes Heidi Stevens.
Heidi Stevens: Yes, 2025 is off to a heartbreaking start. And we can help heal it
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: 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.