Making It on Her Own . . . and You Can, Too
Meg McElwee ’03 knows that the best things in life are often the most simple, like buzzing two pieces of fabric through a sewing machine, sketching out plans for a new dress or running her fingers over the fabric that will soon become a fort for her boys.
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A California surfer-artist goes entrepreneurial to market his own line of freestyle clothing
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The Playroom: In a pickle
The other day, as my husband was clipping my daughter into her car seat, he picked up a pickle slice from the floor of my minivan. I was so busted.
More..Molarity Redux: Home for summer
Welcome to Molarity Redux, the 31st strip in the updated, continuing adventures of Jim Mole and friends. Sometimes communication between the generations needs a translator.
More..Graduates, you can go home again
I wallowed and job-searched for about two months before doing some real self-evaluating and coming to a refreshing conclusion. Having supportive parents and a place to go back to, as it turns out, is not the worst thing in the world.
More..Believing: A useful reminder from Dorothy Day
“Of all hostilities,” Dorothy Day once wrote, “one of the saddest is the war between clergy and laity.” She penned those words in the summer of 1964 as some controversy, long since forgotten, roiled the Catholic Church in America.
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Making It on Her Own . . . and You Can, Too
BYMeg McElwee ’03 knows that the best things in life are often the most simple, like buzzing two pieces of fabric through a sewing machine, sketching out plans for a new dress or running her fingers over the fabric that will soon become a fort for her boys.
More..By Natural Design
BYA California surfer-artist goes entrepreneurial to market his own line of freestyle clothing
More..Teacher Evaluation
BYThe academy gets few awards for sartorial distinction.
More..Something to show for it
BYIt’s easy to lose sight of the fact — especially at universities where theory is a favorite pastime and ideas often remain in the abstract — that design is everywhere.
More..ND Folk Choir releases first live CD
BYThe live album, From Gethsemani to Galway, charts the 30-year journey of the Folk Choir.
More..Flights of Fancy
BYIn a world where the supernatural is threatened with extinction, the sacred may survive in the lands of fairies, fantasy and fable.
More..ND professor’s book reaches top of best-seller list
BYThanks to St. Patrick’s Day promotions, Jay P. Dolan’s The Irish Americans: A History climbed to No.1 on The New York Times April 1 nonfiction ebook bestseller list.
More..My Fair Share
BYThere’s a great and growing divide in America between the rich and the poor, and it’s threatening our economic health and tearing the national fabric.
More..Miserly Catholics?
BYNotre Dame sociologist Christian Smith is leading a multiyear study aimed at learning why some folks are more generous than others. Although the work, which involves scholars from ND and other institutions, is far from complete, Smith has found one preliminary result that Catholics may find unflattering: As a group, we’re tight.
More..Babies listen up
BYBabies are fantastic listeners. They may not know what you’re saying, but they pay rapt attention to language, and they are constantly looking for patterns to help them make sense of it all.
More..Graduates, you can go home again
BYI wallowed and job-searched for about two months before doing some real self-evaluating and coming to a refreshing conclusion. Having supportive parents and a place to go back to, as it turns out, is not the worst thing in the world.
More..Making It on Her Own . . . and You Can, Too
BYMeg McElwee ’03 knows that the best things in life are often the most simple, like buzzing two pieces of fabric through a sewing machine, sketching out plans for a new dress or running her fingers over the fabric that will soon become a fort for her boys.
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