This is Advent. I can feel my soul taking a deep breath. I long for Advent all year – the quiet waiting for Christ, the Scripture, the...

I am a wife, a mother, a public servant, a full-time employee, a volunteer, and a church member. I am supposed to eat healthy, exercise...

I recently had a conversation with a friend who works in higher education. We talked about enrollment rates and programs that are...

(This article ran as a Letter to the Editor in the Terre Haute Tribune Star on September 21, 2022.) Following the July 22 article citing...

Like many of the inner-city kids in Terre Haute, I attended Chauncey Rose Middle School. We often called it “Raunchy Toes,” an...

Vigilance is everything. When you are traveling for work, mind in a million meetings and exhausted from driving and plane hopping, it’s...

When I want to know more about a federal program, I do two things. I follow the money, and I play my favorite game: Six Degrees of LBJ....

When I was in graduate school, I worked part time in the bakery of my local grocery store. I did two tours of duty there, decorating...

Is Congress regular? It occassionally extrudes laws and leaves them in a pile for the bureaucracy or judiciary to implement, clean up, or...

Like the countless hoards of thought workers living through the pandemic times, my daily schedule is peppered with virtual meetings. This...

In a rural Indiana diner, I sat across the table from a seasoned, semi-retired government worker who posed the question, “what is left to...