by April Allman | Apr 2, 2017 | Derby, She's Reading
By Megan M. Seckman Years ago on the North Dakota Chippewa tribe’s reservation, Turtle Mountain, there lived a family of four little girls and a pasture of broken-down thoroughbreds. Each day, the girls would exercise these horses the rest of the race industry no...
by April Allman | Jan 29, 2017 | She's Reading
By Megan Seckman Clare stands in front of one of her paintings called Osage One. The painting represents the oneness of the cycles of photosynthesis. Clare Hirn never considered art to be a viable career. That is why she split her studies as an undergrad at...
by April Allman | Dec 27, 2016 | She's Reading
By Megan M. SeckmanAfter her daughter faced back-to-back concussions and began experiencing debilitating headaches, mood changes, fatigue, and severe sensitivity to light, Lynn Greene went looking for answers. Lynn, 49, and a single-mother of three teenagers, met with...
by April Allman | Dec 16, 2016 | She's Reading
By Megan SeckmanOne drive through Butchertown will remind you how it earned its name. There is the unmistakable odor, for one, and the endless flux of steel-toe booted men traversing crosswalks to the pork processing plant, for another. But look a little...
by April Allman | Nov 27, 2016 | She's Reading
By Megan M. Seckman“I’m already African American, how much black do I need to look slim?…I know I’m no Disney princess but Queen Ursula, royalty. A self-made boss; a threat to you weak-minded mermaids who are too afraid of my tidal wave…So when they call...
by April Allman | Sep 18, 2016 | She's Reading
By Megan M. Seckman Sonya Linser, 49, walked into what was supposed to be a part-time job at The Great Escape 21 years ago and never left. Once she stepped foot into the quirky world of comic culture, she instantly felt at home.“It’s almost like working in Mayberry....
