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Heidi Stevens: We can’t go it alone despite America’s notion of rugged individualism

January 31, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

We're living in a country where needing help is for losers and providing it is for suckers, writes Heidi Stevens.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, left, arrives as President Donald Trump looks on during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: Bishop Budde’s bold sermon, history’s ‘moral mavericks’ and finding our own courage to go rogue for humanity

January 22, 2025 at 4:31 p.m.

When she addressed Donald Trump, Budde undoubtedly expected blowback. But that didn’t prevent her from speaking her conscience.

Stuart McCallister, 64, right, hugs his son-in-law Donald Bryce, after seeing McCallister's home that was destroyed in the Palisades fire, on Haverford Avenue in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, 2025. McCallister has lived in the home he built since 1996. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Heidi Stevens: Yes, 2025 is off to a heartbreaking start. And we can help heal it

January 17, 2025 at 8:08 a.m.

We should resist the urge to wall ourselves off from what’s painful, and instead take improv's "yes, and" approach, writes Heidi Stevens.

Dan O’Conor, the “Great Lake Jumper,” makes his daily leap into Lake Michigan as he nears completion in his year of jumps Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at Montrose Point.

Heidi Stevens: His wife told him to jump in the lake. More than 4 years later, he still is. ‘There’s just a lot of joy in jumping in the water’

January 3, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

In the summer of 2020, when a pandemic gripped the globe and civil unrest filled city streets and dread clouded the air like a low-hanging fog, Dan O’Conor would get...

Tracy Chapman, left and Luke Combs, right, at the 66th Grammy Awards held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Feb. 4, 2024. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Heidi Stevens: Happiness, hope and some hurdles — 24 things from 2024 that I’m carrying into the new year

December 27, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Here are some of the things from the past year, in no particular order, that I’m taking with me into 2025, writes Heidi Stevens.

Children are escorted from a church next to the Abundant Life Christian School on Dec. 16, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Heidi Stevens: Holiday pajamas and police escorts — the infuriating contrast at Abundant Life Christian School

December 20, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

I’m trying to reconcile the playfulness of pajama day with to the flattened fury of the police officer escorting kids in their jammies to safety.

Craig Mindrum and his son, Jonathan, hiking in Yosemite. (Jonathan Mindrum)

Heidi Stevens: A son’s death and a father’s loving determination to keep his true, unvarnished story alive

December 13, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Craig Mindrum hopes his friends never stop asking about Jonathan or sharing stories about him. That’s much more helpful than explanations.

A person carts a freshly cut pine tree through Gaver Farm in Mount Airy, Maryland, on Dec. 17, 2023, eight days before Christmas. (Julia Nikhinson/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: ‘I thought my dad was quite the woodsman.’ Pretending to chop down a tree and other tricks to keep the holidays magical

December 6, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

One of my favorite things about the holidays is the lengths that grown-ups go to so kids can feel wonder and magic and awe.

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July 2, 2026 at 11:50 a.m.

The Highway Hero

Shoppers walk past artificial Christmas trees at a Home Depot on Nov. 30, 2021, in Miami. (Joe Raedle/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: Lessons from a Christmas tree that arrived in a box from Costco

November 29, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

I know some people can relate to worrying that your holidays won’t look the way they’re supposed to, that you somehow haven’t made them magical.

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