All posts of Mia Pohlman

5 Places to Go

It’s spring — get out and explore Southeast Missouri and beyond. Here are a few gems I’ve discovered throughout this beautiful region we get to call home:   The Mudcat Coffee House in Oak Ridge, Missouri The 1911 building that is home to this restaurant-coffee shop was once a hardware store and is complete with […]
6 years ago

The Lines We Draw

How do the simultaneously artificial and real lines of race and politics affect us, and how are women in our community stepping over them to unite? By Mia Pohlman The first time I heard the term “white studies,” I was in my first year of graduate school. Eighteen years of kindergarten through college education, and […]
6 years ago

To Have and to Hold

Deeply personal touches from local couples’ weddings   Your wedding day: the one day when all the people you love from all the parts and places of your life gather to witness two separate lives joined together. It’s the day to celebrate all that love is and has been and will be. Here, five couples […]
6 years ago

The Single Life

Live into it. According to the life plan I mapped out one day in middle school, when my 20s were but a distant dream, I should be married by now. Well, that hasn’t happened. And although my ideas have grown and shifted and changed, this self-imposed relationship timeline is apparently subconsciously ingrained somewhere deep inside […]
6 years ago

Onward, Together

37 Years: Mary and Robert Gentry In Chicago, almost four decades ago, Robert Gentry was working at Cook County Hospital, and his friend told him about a wedding taking place. “Two things that’s always connected with weddings: good food and beautiful women,” Robert says. “That’s what got me there. And they both worked out well.” It […]
6 years ago

Onward, Together

5 Years: Kelley and Jeff Branch Kelley and Jeff Branch met in 2010 in downtown Cape Girardeau. Kelley was a senior at Southeast Missouri State University, and Jeff had just graduated. One of Kelley’s best friends worked with Jeff, and they all happened to be at the same place at the same time. It was a […]
6 years ago

Onward, Together

75 Years: Helen and Fred Moyers Fred and Helen Moyers have been married for 75 years. Their choice to keep choosing each other is a testament that, yes, love is real. And it endures. “Do you want to dance, honey?” Fred Moyers asks Helen Moyers in their living room at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau […]
6 years ago

Onward, Together

19 Years: Natalie and Chris Dittmer Natalie and Chris Dittmer, who have been married for 19 years, share their wisdom on marriage, persevering through difficult times and what it means to live their vows through the dailiness of life. “Everybody that’s trying to do life so that they’re an inspiration to others has to be […]
6 years ago

The Shipyard Music Festival

September 22, 11 a.m., Ivers Square in Downtown Cape Girardeau A shipyard is a place where incomplete parts are brought together to be built into something new before they are sent back out into the world. That’s the concept behind the Shipyard Music Festival put on by The Scout, happening in downtown Cape Girardeau September […]
6 years ago

Where Does Our Trash Go?

Here’s a confession: I don’t recycle. I did during graduate school, when there was a recycling bin right outside my door, and a truck came and picked it up once a week. Now, though, I live in a rural area with no bins and no recycling routes. For some reason, sorting my trash and taking […]
7 years ago