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“You’re positive,” the doctor said.I thought she meant I’m a positive person, to which I replied, “Oh yes, I am!”But then she continued, “Jetske, your…
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I learned about persistence the day my husband went to prison. He was facing up to 97 years behind bars for insurance fraud. It was all over the news.…
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David versus Goliath. Giants versus Patriots. And 3-year-old Ka’Mori versus 23-year-old me.What do all three stories have in common? They’re all about…
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Ode plays at the Marquee with opening act Edem Soul Music, there's art at the Benson Building and we blast off into a month of One Book One Siouxland with…
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Somewhere south of Colorado Springs, I leaned back in the passenger seat and fell asleep. I woke up screaming, “Ahhhhhhh!” While our car bounced off the…
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Edem Soul Music will be opening Ode’s live storytelling night on Friday, April 6, starting at 6 p.m. at The Marquee in downtown Sioux City.After her…
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Bill. I met him in early spring of 1981 when I was in law school. I’d come to Sioux City once in a while, looking for something I didn’t think I could…
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I left Little Rock, Arkansas, bound for the East Coast with two suitcases, $200 and a one-way ticket to Hartford, Connecticut in hot pursuit of an acting…
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I’m lying in the ER, dazed and confused—my whole body numb. I’m holding back the tears as I gasp for breath. I wonder, Will I walk again? Was it really…
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I’d spent the last 11 years being a professional mothering machine. I’d caught more vomit with my bare hands than you could believe and cleaned up poop…