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Constitutionally Midwestern
by Lauren Shields
Does the Midwest suck? Not from where I'm sitting. constitutionallymidwestern.substack.com
Episodes
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Belonging Under the Orange Lights
A superfit Buddy the Elf gives a pep talk in front of a heap of new toys, while we members try to ignore the snacks on the table. We know from experience that Orangetheory workouts are not easy, and having a cookie sloshing around in your gut makes sprinting a million times harder. “I want you to...
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Winter is here...
I’ve come across a lot of opportunities lately I thought would bear incredible fruit. You know when you see some amazing possibilities, how good it feels to line up all your ducks to get them? How that hope pulls you through your days, sure that if you check all the right boxes, of course...
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The stories we tell ourselves
When I was training to be a hospital chaplain, one of the most valuable things I learned about was family systems theory. Broadly speaking, it’s the idea that families function as a unit to reach their goals, and everyone in the family—even the kids—has a role to play. The system strives to...
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Have Indiana's politics ruined Indiana for me?
Do I need to move back to California? This was an unexpected question to be asking myself. I only got here six months ago. I chose Bloomington after investigating another college town with a remote work program, evaluating my options in Florida where I’d moved during the pandemic to be closer to...
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Post-Roe Indiana
It made me feel a lot better when I read that nostalgia is an adaptive coping mechanism. It means that interpreting the peony bush outside my back porch as a sign that I’ve made the right decision coming to Indiana because my Grandma Jeanne used to grow them isn’t the dysfunctional weirdness I...
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Midwest Funny
In an earlier post, I wondered whether there was such a thing as a “Midwestern sense of humor.” People from the middle of the country make me laugh, and I wanted to know why. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Midwest Humor, Midwest Nice
“You can’t go home again.” - Someone sad “Yeah, but what if I try?” - This podcast This week I learned that someone who knows me very well, with whom I was in a committed relationship for almost a decade, had no idea I missed the Midwest. I’m befuddled as to how I managed not to communicate this…
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Ope.
What’s the connection between location and identity? Do the same kinds of people move to the same kinds of places, or do places make their residents roughly the same? Where do we get our ideas of how it feels to live somewhere, and what happens when we’re wrong? Are people actually the same...
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Constitutionally Midwestern: An Introduction
Hi. My name is Lauren Shields, and this is my Substack/ podcast. It’s called, “Constitutionally Midwestern.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit constitutionallymidwestern.substack.com
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Does the Midwest suck? Not from where I'm sitting. constitutionallymidwestern.substack.com
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Constitutionally Midwestern is created and hosted by Lauren Shields.
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