Rebec­ca E. Ben­der, who wrote this piece, and her father Ken­neth M. Ben­der are coau­thors of Still (NDSU Press 2019), a biography/​memoir of five gen­er­a­tions of their Jew­ish fam­i­ly on three con­ti­nents. Still is the 2019 Inde­pen­dent Press Award Win­ner (Judaism cat­e­go­ry) and the 2020 Mid­west Book Award Gold Medal Win­ner (Religion/​Philosophy cat­e­go­ry). Rebecca’s prose and poet­ry have appeared, inter alia, in The Jour­nal of The Amer­i­can His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety of Ger­mans from Rus­sia, North Dako­ta Quar­ter­ly, The Jew­ish Vet­er­an, the For­ward, Australia’s Jew­ish Women of Words, the Star­Tri­bune, Man­dala, The North­west Blade, The San Diego Jew­ish World, and pre­vi­ous­ly in Paper Brigade Dai­ly (Jew­ish Book Coun­cil). She has recent­ly com­plet­ed two oth­er projects: a Still screen­play adap­ta­tion and a children’s sto­ry­book, based upon fact, about a young Jew­ish girl liv­ing on the prairie with her home­steading par­ents in the ear­ly 1900s, with each sto­ry focus­ing on a core val­ue of Judaism. Still, with a sec­ond print­ing out in paper­back in March, is avail­able through NDSU​Press​.org, Ama​zon​.com, or can be ordered through any bookstore.