Day: January 16, 2006

Tribute to David Timmer

This month we complete a line change on the Perspectives hockey squad. In an accompanying column we offer homage to Fran Fike, our outgoing poetry

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Farewell, Fran

With this issue of Perspectives we bid a fond adieu to our longtime Poetry Editor, Fran Fike. The name of Francis G. Fike first appeared

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Forever and Ever

The anesthesiologist, I thought, looked competent. He had introduced himself shortly after the nurse in pre-op had managed to pull my wedding ring off. “The

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A New and Beautiful Design

JANUARY 2006: ESSAY by Rosemarie van der Jagt and Christopher R. Smit Only a week had gone by since my summer research project had begun,

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The Trees Are Down

JANUARY 2006: POETRY — and he cried with a loud voice: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees — — Revelation They

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Shifting Focus

My husband and I are expecting our first child any day now. Carrying a child during the Advent season offers one a new perspective on

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