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...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog
The National 24 Hour Challenge is in the past now, a month+ ago, but I need to reflect a bit on it. This is more of a photo gallery for my own memories than anything else, but if you feel like slogging through it, more power to you. This race was harder than I...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog
This drizzly morning, I have been doing much thinking. I need to blog about the 24-Hour race, but since I feel as if it’s all been said, I keep making lame, failed starts. Here’s what I’ve been thinking. My life has been divided into 20-year...
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