Cassie Bendel – Weelunk

We Need a Mouse-Ke-Do-Over: Surviving the Worst Vacation Ever

June 15, 2019

I don’t know what came over me, but I really wanted to hug that mouse. In the fall of 2013, my family took what can easily be described as the worst vacation of all time. I’m sure there are worse stories, bu...

Medicine, Money and Making it all Work: Three Stories of Working Women

Cassie Bendel

June 7, 2019

42 years. That’s how long it took the right for women to vote to move from constitutional amendment to law in the United States. In a nation with a relatively short history, that’s a long time. These days, w...

Children’s Museum Offers Beautiful Days in the Neighborhood

Cassie Bendel

June 5, 2019

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When the days get long, Terra Crews remembers the words of Fred Rogers. "We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not...

More Than Just Fish Fridays: The Catholic Way Through Lent in 2019

Cassie Bendel

March 29, 2019

Mention the word Lent, and a thousand memories come to mind for me. I remember celebrating Fat Tuesday with a King Cake as a second-grader at Mt. de Chantal. I remember feeling solemn the next day to receive as...

Mountain State Students Celebrate Catholic Schools Week

Cassie Bendel

January 27, 2019

Funny socks, volleyball games and dressing up like a firefighter. What do they all have in common? These are just some of the ways students across West Virginia will transform a cold, otherwise ordinary week of...

Coach Helps Fantasy in Lights Parade Swing Into Season of Miracles

Cassie Bendel

November 16, 2018

In the sports world, it’s not unusual to hear a certain catch, a well-orchestrated play or a come-from-behind victory referred to as a miracle. Christmas is a season for miracles. Not the kind that get a team i...

Mt. Calvary Cemetery: A Place to Remember on a Day for All Souls

Cassie Bendel

October 31, 2018

Meditate much on death, that you may not be too attached to this life. — St. Elizabeth Ann Seton ___________________________________ At this time of year, when the sky turns gray, the air makes you shiver, an...

More Than Just ‘Say Cheese’: Finding Magic in the Moment With Erin Yaeger Photography

Cassie Bendel

June 19, 2018

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Vision is something that both limits and expands our human experience. We experience the world around us through what we see, but our perspective is always limited to what our eyes alone can take in. Erin Y...

Creating the Wheeling Feeling: How Design Helped a Mount Alumna Embrace Her Hometown

Cassie Bendel

May 16, 2018

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If we were ever to learn anything from the story of the phoenix, it’s that we sometimes have to use the dust of what were to create what we’ll become. On a chilly morning last September, Vanessa Govindan sta...

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