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A woman with dark-rimmed glasses and long brown hair wears a floral sweater while standing next to a jumping toddler in a tie-dyed tee shirt. A cross-armed man stands behind shrubs to their left in front of a white, wood panelled home and a brick stoop.

Ana, Lucas, and David

Ana and David are expecting their second child in October. They found out it’s going to be a boy only a couple of days before Kremena and I

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Liz, Dan, and Amelia With Jaja

Elections matter. With the outbreak of COVID-19 we see just how important it is to elect good leaders. Dr. Liz Sheehan is running to represent the 5th District

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A woman with parted curly hair in a business jacket and red pajama pants with a snowflake pattern is seated with a laptop on the rail of a front porch while a black labrador retriever looks on.

Kim with Rufus

Rufus: “I am so grateful to have my humans home with me all day for non-stop companionship and occasional play breaks. I know they are trying to work

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Daniel, Riah, and Eva With Hila

Riah: “Quarantine has given us more opportunity to be together and that was terrifying in the beginning. Looking at an unknown amount of time to be doing life

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Kimberly and Oscar

Kimberly Vaca is the Art teacher at Northern Elementary School. She has taught there for 17 years. This is what Kimberly shared with us when we photographed her

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Michelle, Bren, and Pat

Michelle: “I have been teaching at Cardinal Valley Elementary school for 20 years. I taught the parents of some of my current students. I started as the library

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Chloe, Caden, Julie, and Scott

Juliana Jensen is the proud owner of Cakes by Julie. She was able to move her business from a rented commercial kitchen space to her home kitchen after,

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Lori

Lori: “One of the things I am getting ready to launch is a ritual 1,000-dragon challenge—to bring strength, willpower, and resilience to the art community. The mission of

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Two men, (left) wearing a red woven cap and a black graphic tee shirt and (right) a Granada tee-shirt sit on a front stoop petting an old, brown dog with a colorful collar.

Dafri and Thomi with Yuma

Dafri: “One of my biggest things as an artist is telling the untold story. If I’m in a crowded room, my eyes always go to the person who’s

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Katerina

Katerina: “These are the first words I’m writing about the pandemic. I’ve been totally quiet about it so far, thinking. I try to take each day as it

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A young family enjoys their back yard: a girl in a red dress on a bicyle and a man in a marron button down are both seated on children's bicyles donning a snarling expression. The man wears sunglasses while a woman in a dark shirt with laced sleeves and curly hair rests her arm around a toddler with short curly hair drinking juice.

Athena, Joe, Jakob, and Yamel

Joe: “It’s a terrible situation, so many people dying. The silver lining is less pollution, nuclear families staying closer (though that has its own stress). I know I’ve

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An older man in dark glasses and a blue athletic jacket stands on a front stoop holding a red and white umbrella.

Don

Don: “There is a part of me that feels more hopeful about the future than ever, entirely because of the young generation, Gen Z. Greta Thunberg is a

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Aardra

Aardra Kachroo is an award-winning scientist and Professor at the University of Kentucky Plant Pathology Department. She does a number of K-12 science outreach workshops in and around

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Antoine

Antoine is a third-generation painter. Both his grandfather and father were painters; eventually, his father started his own painting company. Antoine and his brother learned painting from their

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A man with neat, dark stubble and parted hair in jeans and a tee shirt sits on the stone stairs of a hime while holding a wine glass.

Salvador

“At the beginning it was easy to feel lost, but there was a point in all of the madness that I started walking every day, thinking about what

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A woman in a neatly pressed black jacket and dress stands on the small porch of a brick home next to a man in a grey tee shirt with a brown leather belt and watch while a young girl in a light pink sweater swings in from their left on a swingset.

Annie, Sarah, and David

David: “I remodel kitchen and baths. I got laid off in the second week of the pandemic. I’ve greatly enjoyed the extra time with my family … but

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