If you look around, you can see it coming. The days are growing shorter. The sense of organization, more apparent. And sales are running rampant at local retailers, with pens, pencils, colorful notebooks and more spilling from the shelves. Another school year is upon us, and whether you’re ready for it or not, we have...

Most likely you’ve heard of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two women who fought for women’s rights and helped paved the way 21st century women. But do you know the names Susan Gratiot, Adele Gratiot Washburne, Elizabeth Armstrong or Clarissa Emely Gear Hobbs? To help area residents learn more about these women and...

Candie Minnick is a woman who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty — literally. The 52-year-old has made a lifelong career in the manufacturing industry, first with FDL Foods and for the past 15½ years in various building and assembly roles with John Deere Dubuque Works. Today, she works as a cog in the...

A team of local women win by making contact playing roller derby on the skating rink. Strong and entertaining competitors, the Dubuque Bomb Squad is eager to share their passion for the game and need for a new home. They admit not everyone might know them or understand roller derby, which typically is played by...

“Sure he was great, but don’t forget that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did … backwards and in high heels.” It’s a quote that originated in a 1982 “Frank and Ernest” cartoon, illustrated by Bob Thaves. And it’s one that has come to embody the idea that women can do anything that men can...

According to a recent study conducted by the University of Oxford, there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to a fun night out or a good old fashioned getaway with your girlfriends. Research shows that meeting up with your best gal pals twice per week is good for your health, citing that both...

After a polar vortex, spring flooding and a slow start to the warmer temperatures, is it any wonder why many of us are more enthusiastic than usual about summer? The season that brings sunshine also brings something else: The itch to travel. And we’ve dedicated this edition of Her to all things great for getting...

For many, gardening is akin to their happy place, enabling them to enter a zen-like state, surrounded by fragrant and blooming beauties. But for Korrin Schriver, it’s more than that. It’s a science and an agricultural way of a sustainable future. The 36-year-old who has taught science at Wahlert Catholic High School in Dubuque for...

After spending the winter buried in snow and ice, at long last spring has arrived and summer is just around the corner. Most of us have turned our attention from indoor projects that kept us out of winter’s fury to embracing the great outdoors. With that in mind, we greet the warm weather with our...

Most who know me well are on to a few of my not-so-well-kept secrets: • I adore shoes and designer purses. • I get the tiniest flutter of excitement when my favorite cosmetic line releases a new product. • My Urban Decay Reloaded eye shadow palette is akin to coffee: Without it, my mornings are...

The haircut. Most of us have experienced just how much length it can achieve. Trimming away the old to make way for the new can take on a kind of double meaning, from hair to life. And many know just how rejuvenating that can feel. When it comes to beauty, a little help from the...

Casey Smith is a woman with a lot on her plate. As the membership and wellness director at the Dubuque Community YMCA/YWCA for five years, the 31-year-old also serves as the girls basketball coach for the Dubuque Hempstead High School Mustangs, her alma mater and a team she excelled on in her own right as...

Motherhood. Whether you’re on your first born or your fifth, and whether you have had children or adopted, there is something indescribable about the act of caring for and raising a human being. I have not yet had children. But I have watched it transform friends and family of mine who have. They acknowledge that...