Heather McIlvaine-Newsad
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Like many people over the holiday break, I consumed a fair amount of Netflix and Hulu. I have a fondness for contemporary Scandinavian crimis and Sturm… -
Since 2007 I have been teaching Introduction to Cultural Anthropology to small groups of First Year Experience (FYE) students at Western Illinois… -
Almost every morning between 6:00 and 6:30 for the past 17 years, a "thump" could be heard on my front porch. Last week at 7:30 still barefoot and in my… -
I've been thinking a lot about legacy recently. A quick Google search gave me the Oxford dictionary definition of a legacy as "an amount of money or… -
Michael and I are among the millions of parents in the US who have young humans who have or will be moving onto college campuses this fall. Last year,… -
As we pass the one-year point of the COVID-19 pandemic, I've been wondering: what stories will prevail about this particular point in time one hundred… -
In late July of 1995, Michael and I packed everything we owned into the back of a U-Haul and headed south to Gainesville, Florida. As newlyweds and poor… -
I don’t know about you all, but I am beyond exhausted. This isn't pandemic fatigue, but full on pandemic burn out. Pandemic fatigue is being tired of… -
Last year was rough. And to be honest, I am not sure that this year is going to be much better. Usually at the dawn of the new year, I feel a sense of… -
Congratulations! We’ve made it to December and are that much closer to being able to say goodbye to 2020 in a few short weeks. We survived Thanksgiving…
