All posts of Mia Pohlman

from the editor: Winter 2025, Rest

I like to think of sleep as a spiritual practice. It asks us to trust that if we allow our desire for control to rest, we will be given what we need, and it will be what is best for us. When we say yes to this, we are taken care of: While we seem […]
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Showing Heifers: Michaela Roth shares how caring for cattle gives her rest

Journey’s nickname is Dino, then there’s Lady of Tice, whose nickname is Trace, and then there’s Heart, who goes by her registered name. These are the names of the registered Hereford heifers Michaela Roth and her husband Alex show at fairs and cattle shows throughout the region. The endeavor is one of community and relationship: […]
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Women Reading: Lisa Bishop

Throughout the ages, women reading have often been the subject of paintings. This simple act of showing women engaging in a leisure activity often has had deeper connotations than what we might realize today: In the past and at different historical eras, education was reserved for only women of wealthier classes, seen as preparation for […]
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Women Reading: Kayla Tidwell

Throughout the ages, women reading have often been the subject of paintings. This simple act of showing women engaging in a leisure activity often has had deeper connotations than what we might realize today: In the past and at different historical eras, education was reserved for only women of wealthier classes, seen as preparation for […]
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Women Reading: San Srikant

Throughout the ages, women reading have often been the subject of paintings. This simple act of showing women engaging in a leisure activity often has had deeper connotations than what we might realize today: In the past and at different historical eras, education was reserved for only women of wealthier classes, seen as preparation for […]
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Women Reading: Cesia Noemi

Throughout the ages, women reading have often been the subject of paintings. This simple act of showing women engaging in a leisure activity often has had deeper connotations than what we might realize today: In the past and at different historical eras, education was reserved for only women of wealthier classes, seen as preparation for […]
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Women Reading: Autumn Roe

Throughout the ages, women reading have often been the subject of paintings. This simple act of showing women engaging in a leisure activity often has had deeper connotations than what we might realize today: In the past and at different historical eras, education was reserved for only women of wealthier classes, seen as preparation for […]
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Artist Spotlight: Lesley Eby

Art runs in oil painter Lesley Eby’s family. From the time she was little, her father, who was an artist, practiced drawing with her, teaching her how to see and draw what she saw. Her grandmother taught Eby how to crochet, and her mother quilts. Eby’s adult children, too, all practice varying forms of art, […]
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meet along the way: Rhonda Weller-Stilson, MFA

This story was first published as “Faces of Southeast Missouri: Rhonda Weller-Stilson, MFA” in the September 2025 issue of The Best Years. Rhonda Weller-Stilson, MFA, first took the stage in the second grade when she played a fairy in a play at her public school in Cincinnati. She continued theater throughout high school and into […]
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meet along the way: Dara Drury

This story was first published as “Community Cookbook: Make Senior Center meatloaf with Dara Drury of Cape Girardeau” in the August 2025 issue of The Best Years.   Mondays through Fridays, Cape Senior Center kitchen manager and head cook Dara Drury feeds approximately 400 people in Cape Girardeau County, from Scott City to Whitewater to […]
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