A terrible accident, a heartbreaking loss, a community rallying together, and a storybook ending to a tough volleyball season: this story is far too
When addiction and violent crime happen, the families of the perpetrators are often left out of the conversation.
Iowa-based playwright Jennifer Fawcett’s new play Apples in Winter gives us a complicated and emotional glimpse of the burden that these families carry through the story of Robert. Robert has been on death row for 22 years after committing a horrible crime while in the grips of withdrawal, and his mother Miriam, who grants his final meal request for a slice of her homemade apple pie.
Comic, author, and actress Jen Kirkman comes to Iowa this weekend as part of the Witching Hour Festival. On her latest special on Netflix, I’m Going to Die Alone (and I Feel Fine), Kirkman dives into the topic of her decision to not have children.
« Even the movement itself is called ‘Childfree by Choice’ and choice to me illustrates, you know, Coke or Pepsi, you sit there and you weigh the options. To me it was a non-instinct. It never dawned on me to even want children, ever. It wasn’t even a choice. »‘
