Running without my glasses

Running without my glasses

by Elyssa Salinas    I’ve always hated running: the sweating, the backaches, the lungs-on-fire feeling. Every quarter in high school, we had to run the mile and I always dreaded it. All the cross-country kids would be done so quickly while the rest of us trudged around the track until the end of the period. […]

Blessings of health

Blessings of health

by Christina Auch     “I feel like Pinocchio,” I joked with the nurse administering my chemotherapy at the hospital. With an IV line in my foot, and another one in my arm, oxygen cannulas and an oximeter on my finger, I could have been a human-sized marionette. I was 26, married for three years […]