by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | May 18, 2019 | Blog
It’s been a long school year: the snowstorms, snow days, and all the normal upheaval that accompanies higher ed. (If you have no clue what that means, you should read Julie Schumacher’s The Shakespeare Requirement. It’s hilarious and over-the-top...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 26, 2018 | Blog
You + Blue | BlueCrossMN Due to pressure, I’m posting the link here to the story Blue Cross and Blue Shield made about six of us senior athletes in Minnesota. Here it is. Scroll down to “Better With Age” and there we are. My story is the first one in...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 25, 2018 | Blog
Poem (I always loved John Updike; here is a delightful Christmas poem he wrote) A Sound Heard Early on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity By John Updike Issue no. 155 (Summer 2000) from a special edition of the Paris Review Redux The thump of the newspaper on the porch...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Nov 25, 2018 | Blog
In response to my last post about “Do what you are doing,” I have thought in the last twenty-four hours how cell phones have all so often kept us from doing what we are doing. How many young people have you seen at a table together, all looking at their...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Nov 24, 2018 | Blog
Sometime during my senior year of high school, I listened to a motivational speaker named Clayton Barbeau. He came to our church in Huxley, Iowa, and I remember being enthralled with what he had to say. At the time, I was entirely, utterly dedicated to being as...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 15, 2018 | Blog
Today, one of my students stood a bit awkwardly beside me and finally said, “Becky, I have to ask. Are you in a commercial?” Yes, this is me. During the senior games in August, a production company for Blue Cross asked all participants if we had stories...
It’s finally summer, at least for us
Getting Better with Age…
Merry Christmas
Do What you are Doing, addendum
Do what you are doing.
National 24 Hour Challenge and following
A self-indulgent look at how my life has broken into 20-year sections
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