JESSYCA STOEPKER
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A poem I wrote last October about the weird nostalgia of rural childhoods.

2020 may have been the year of global crisis, but 2021 is the year of my quarter-life crisis. Quitting my job was just one of many reasons.

Unlike most folks, I have not yet been sent home to work remotely. While even healthcare workers took a few weeks' leave in the spring, I st

Take temp, down coffee, mask up. Repeat. The phrase "keep calm and carry on" has never aligned more perfectly.

The lists of people we claim to love can be hundreds of pages long, and yet, as my friend said, "You can't keep them."

As many of you know, I have been accepted into and participating in events through Leadership Little Traverse, a nine-month civic...

I’m not writing this to pat myself on the back, to brag about some high moral standards that I have or anything like that. I’m writing...

Despite not knowing this wonderful city existed until 48 hours before I left Michigan, I've fallen in love with Monterey. Located in...

I (semi-unintentionally?) spent a lot of time in Southern California, and I was going to write a more lengthy post about it. However, so...

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” -John Muir...

Sequoia National Park--truthfully, the dream that brought me to California in the first place. It only makes sense that exploring it...

As many of you know, I’m currently chugging over to California via Amtrak for a few weeks of solo vacation. My bus left from Grand Rapids...

Sometimes I really miss college--the roommate bonding, the clubbing on the weekends, the relief of finishing a giant research paper right...

Can we just reflect on the fact that it is already April, as in A-P-R-I-L, 2019?!? Okay, thanks. I think it’s safe to say that everyone...

Goal-setting is essential for anyone who wants to succeed in life. It doesn't matter what your goals are--they could involve bettering...

While January lasted 10 years, December has lasted 10 seconds. After a brown Christmas, I'm back to work planning out the year ahead. But...

You never know to what extent your personal hobbies may affect your career. Flash back to sophomore year of college. Inspired after...

These days, "self-care" can mean just about anything. Social media gurus pose with lattes, comfy socks, and bath bombs and call it...

To help out a friend working on an internship project, I volunteered an hour of my time the other day to answer some of his questions...

Like so many moms, mine was filled with a kind of hopeful sadness when I officially moved out of the house a few years ago. But she...