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Jeanette Saddler Taylor
True to Type
Chronicling Michiana
Patrick Henry in the Marching Band
Jeff Nixa
A Green Witch
Chair Massage
A Hospital Epiphany
Real Estate Physiology
Kayaking a Great Lake
Kid’s Triathlon
Alley Dogs
Alley Walks
Bike to Work Week
Daddy Daughter Dance
Valentine’s Night
Black Ice
Humor in the Hospital
Inner City Bike Repair
The Last Customer
Dancing with Trains
Gettysburg
Bad Neighborhood
Joe Chaney
Jump Ball at the Hoosier Primary
The Chaney Identity
Imagining a Different President
Against Retirement
Hearing Our Spirit Voice
Wake up the Echoes
Voices in Your Head
The Most Important Job
Trends in the Baby Names Market
Virginia Tech
The Middle Manager’s Beatific Vision
Super Bowl Fever 2007
My New Year’s Ritual
Working for the Minimum Wage
Greetings, Earthlings
The High School Football Scene
My Years in the Injustice Factory
Sneezes and Oopses
Diversity and Dialogue
Learning to Speak at a Quaker Wedding
A Presence on the Web
’Tis the Season
A Confession
The Artist’s Clock
Sacrifice and Solidarity
Dreaming of Jeannie
Remembering Europe
I’m the Anti-Grade Inflation Czar (or, Words of Comfort for Teachers in their Time of Trial)
What about Binky?
Reading the Names
The Chronicles Caper
We Are N. D.
Swinging States
Renewal in Our Nation’s Capital
Leave It to Beaver (The Same-Sex Marriage Episode)
The Real America
Who Gets to Drive?
Questions about Terrorism
Hawaiian Shirts, Local Time
Living in the Digital World
A Cubs Fantasy
The Blackout of 2003
Showing Your Goat
Day Hiking for the Michiana Soul
Reality Television
A Midwestern Spring
The Food War
Talk, Talk, Talk
The Curse of the Teenage Clone
The Call of the Sandhill Cranes
The Lonely Game
Return to Glory
The Beauty of Beasts at the 2002 St. Joseph County 4-H Fair
Louise Collins
A Turkey Tale
Pledging My Support
A Walk in the Park
Klutzing with Clay
Admiring Irish Dance
Guys and Guns
Revisiting the Past
Ice-Carving in St. Joseph
My Beef with Eating Meat
Counting Down to Christmas
The Infrastructure of Everyday Life
Visiting the Hospital
A Weekend of Norwegian Folk Fiddle
Surviving the Heat-Wave
Bring out the Barbie Dolls!
Friends
Considering South Dakota
Of Minds and Machines
A Visit to the Dentist
Cold Turkey
Humming Along with the Masters
Labor Day Weekend
The Tube and Terrorism
On Safari
Children and the American Dream
Geocaching in Spring
War
Checking My Change
A Trip to the Chocolate Factory
The Scent of the Holidays
Minerals and Memory
First Call for Help
Remembering the Prairies
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Enthusiast
Spring Makeovers
In Search of the American Cowboy
Why Manners Matter
Getting up in the Morning
The Carnival of Bands
A Trip to Amish Country
Got Milk?
A Stroll Around The Zoo
Polka Party in Benton Harbor
Angst and Upholstery
Anatomical Correctness
The Sensations of Winter
Holiday Lights
In Search of Beauty at the Bolshoi Ballet
The Caulk of the Town
In Praise of Idleness
You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Groundhog
Public Universities and Pest Control
I Love A Parade
Flora vs. Fauna
Learning to Cook
Spring Festivals
Junk Mail and Me
A Sporting Life
Resolutions and Writing
Where Are You From?
Michiana Car Culture
A is for Alphabet Books
Jonathan Nashel
Baby, It’s Cold Inside
The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Are you Experienced?
Home for the Holidays
Life is Beautiful
God Bless Indiana
A Death in the Family
Loretta Lynn, Richard Nixon, and the Wonders of American Culture
Why New Things Stink
George W. Bush Comes to South Bend
Our Governor, My Marriage, and That Whole Time Zone Thing
Riding a Big Rig
Talking to the Government
My Lawn, My Nightmare
Pushing a Lawnmower to the Max in Granger
John Lennon Comes to Grape Road
Bruce Springsteen’s Biggest Michiana Fan
Baseball and Me
Elvis is in the House
Eating Out With Job Candidates
Taking Stock
On the Joys of Flying
When Religion Comes to Michiana
What I’d Like to Ask George W. Bush
Bob Dylan, The Cove, and Me
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble
Going to Hooters
Going to Walmart
Hitting the Road
Stray Gloves
Why Morphine is Overrated
Trick or Treat, Hoosiers!
A Hoosier Returns from New York
New York, 9/11, and Those Images
George W. Bush, the Movie
Bikers, BMWs, and the Nature of Community in Michiana
Women’s Football Comes to Michiana
What Is Perfection?
Notre Dame Welcomes the Queen of Cool
When Students Decide to Tell You the Truth
Why Thinking about Movies is a Bad Thing to Do
How Paris Turned Into South Bend
Why We Need Kung Fu Films
The World Trade Center and the Meaning of Patriotism
April Lidinsky
Skirting the Issue
Microclimates of the Self
Going Platinum
Acting like Christmas
Thresholds of Pain
Going Bananas
The Allure of Youth Culture
Pleasure and Danger … and Gender
Defending Dandelions
Second Thoughts on Sex Ed
Second-Guessing Spring
Dancing for our Lives
Shampooing the Mouse
Cooking Up Family History
The Witching Hour
A World of Our Making
Measuring Up
Listening to Summer
Having a Field Day
Momentum
The Way of Fist and Foot, and Heart
Everyday Olympians
The Play’s the Thing
Grace on the Journey
Mind Games
Where the Floods Carry Us
Relative Time
Shades of Life
Wrong About Rodents
Your Life, as the Crow Flies
Demonstrating Spring
Calculating Gender
Balm for a Bleak Season
The Life of Pie
Pajama Parties, Not Political Parties
Waging Art
The Deep End
Digging Dirt
A Lament for Imperfect Teeth
Spring Cleaning
Talk About Love
True Confessions of a Girl Scout
Cookin’ with Gas
Tales of Interior Redecorating
Cracking the Dress Code
Surviving Kids’ Birthday Parties
Learning to Dance
Vintage June Brides
Bursting into Bloom
Chimpanzee Vision
Girl Culture Shock
Signs of the Times
Why I Want To Do the Splits
Learning to Shut Up
Carrying the Sun
Scrapping with Scrapbooks
Wherefore Super Target?
Thinking About Roughing It
Swimming Lessons
In Defense of a Bad Lawn
How Big Can A ‘Small Town’ Be?
Spring Break for Grownups
On Playground Duty
Painting on Windows
The Heck of Homespun Holidays
Harry Potter’s Coming to Town
Taking on Taekwondo
Composting
Ken Smith
Doing Algebra
The Morning after Valentine’s Day
Far Away Family
The Golden Compass
Downtown Tourist Blues
Email from the Hurricane Zone
The Bathroom that Ate the Summer
Pirates and Piercings
Calling to Complain
The New Old-Fashioned Mower
Sledding Down the Big Hill
Civil Rights Struggle in South Bend
The Fourth Grade Robotics Team
Living by Mail Order
Children at Risk
Our Ontario Holiday
Fast Food Follies
Big League Baseball
The Tipping Points of an Ordinary Day
At the Blood Bank
The Exercise Bike
Tragedy in the Coal Mines
The Big-Spending Month of December
Modern Sex Education
Optimism and Graffiti
The Last Morning of Summer
Biking Around Michiana
Turning Fifty
Studebaker Stories
Chess Night
Do Not Call
For the Love of Cooking Shows
Serving on a Jury
Bad News by Phone
Goals for the School Year
The Power of Medical Experts
Trying to Understand the Second World War
Beer, Billboards, and Activism
What Is Poetry Good For?
A Trip to the Science Fair
The Local Food Scene
The Year in Review
Doris Day’s Advice for the Long Winter Ahead
Fossil Park
Taking the Family Camping
Learning to Like Shakespeare
Kids At The Pool
Going to College Graduation
The Visiting Writer—Stephen Kuusisto
In Praise of Perennials
The Music Man Returns
Letters from the War
Going to See the Mouse
On Becoming a Crank
Autumn in the Neighborhood
Opinion Polls, Common Sense, and the Pleasures of Reading Essays
Pride and Hype Along the Interstate
Potawatomi Zoo
Vacation Mishaps
A Season Pass to the Beach
Home Repair and Family History
A Talent for Happiness
Farewell, Olympians
The Con Man
Turtle Lamps and Other Gifts
Santa’s Helicopter
Watching the Firefighters
Wick