Lyz Lenz

Last week, the newspaper received its first obituary for a death related to COVID-19. The notice came through my email …

At a Subway restaurant in northwest Iowa, families come in during the lunch rush and laugh and talk, standing close …

I met Kayla Koether on March 3, back when we were allowed to meet people. It was Super Tuesday and …

Welcome to Iowa, where in the middle of a global pandemic you can still walk into a Hobby Lobby, but …

The irrepressible Iowa spirit is out in full force these days – shopping, hiking and supporting local businesses. Parents are …

For the entirety of my children’s lives, I have been able to muster together the powers of glitter and imagination …

I do not know how to explain to my children what a global pandemic means. And it’s because I don’t …

This pandemic didn’t sneak up on us. It came with us watching and refusing to believe what we saw. The …

In December of 2015, at a campaign rally in North Carolina, a 12-year-old girl came up to Donald Trump and …

Ellen Keyser Endelman’s whole life is a quarantine. The 24-year-old seminary student lives in Iowa City and, because of a …

Beverly Young lives in Cedar Rapids, is 82 and wants to tell you a story. She wants to tell you …

As the debris clears from Super Tuesday, Democrats are talking a lot about unity. Already, the unification of the party …

It has come to my understanding that you do not like it when I talk about my uterus. I also …

It was in early October when I gave birth to death. Only three weeks before, I peed on a stick …

There is more knowledge about freedom of speech in a six pack of Busch Light than in the Iowa GOP. …