“I’m not sure why I just shared all of that with you” is a comment I have heard many times in my life and is one of the reasons I chose mental health counseling as a profession. When someone is ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Lucee Howe has stuck with softball for a variety of reasons. Mostly, however, she just wants to make those around her proud and leave a positive mark.

Lucee watched Ebola kill her father. In the small house she grew up in with two brothers, 12 and 4, she stared in silence as the disease swallowed him whole. She couldn’t save him—he’d made her ...