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Who’s Asking, Anyway?
by Hannah McNulty | Apr 19, 2025 | Placeless
Expressing a need isn’t always the same thing as asking someone else to fulfill it, even if you wouldn’t turn down an offer.
Spring: The Most Underrated Movie Season
by Isaac DeBoer | Apr 18, 2025 | Placeless
This movie’s spring cleaning for your heart.
Watching Greatness (and Struggling to Know How to Achieve It)
by Noah Schumerth | Apr 15, 2025 | Placeless
At some point, why keep setting yourself up for failure and shame again and again?
How to Get a Badreads Review from Me, Part Two
by Noah Keene | Apr 14, 2025 | Placeless
The story’s incoherent, the characterization paper-thin, and a potentially compelling mystery reaches a breathtakingly unsatisfying conclusion.
Winey Wednesday
by Olivia Harre | Apr 13, 2025 | Placeless
They’re always an adventure, our Wednesday chats.
We Will Get Louder
by Liana Hirner | Apr 12, 2025 | Placeless
I wasn’t expecting a woman to lean out the passenger window, pointing at us passionately as she exclaimed, “I’m so proud of you!”
Love That Backpack Dog
by Gabrielle Eisma | Apr 11, 2025 | Placeless
I look at my feet and then at my dog’s feet, all tucked into the backpack she is patiently waiting for me to let her out of.
Nostalgia and Community in Three Card Games
by Philip Rienstra | Apr 10, 2025 | Placeless
As awful as Nintendo can be, the charm of Pokémon is undeniable.
What Died Didn’t Stay Dead: A Taylor Swift Worship Experience: Holy Week Edition
by Josh Parks | Apr 8, 2025 | Placeless
She can come to the phone right now, because if she has died, she has also risen.
We’re Moving (Or: About Hope)
by Kate Wilmot | Apr 7, 2025 | Grand Rapids
We wandered our neighborhood, spending nothing to play pickleball on the tennis courts north of us and to watch the sunset from the hill to the south.
Closing My Eyes
by Alex Johnson | Apr 5, 2025 | Michigan
What actions are actually rest for me these days, and what are just a means to while away the time?
The People Onscreen
by Kipp De Man | Apr 4, 2025 | Placeless
We reach out towards it and it reaches back.
Let’s Go Duke
by Ansley Kelly | Apr 3, 2025 | New York
Even when victory Monday became commiseration Monday, I felt the beauty of living that disappointment together.
What To Watch This Week (Not On a Screen)
by Christina Ribbens | Apr 2, 2025 | Washington, D.C.
Think about the particular way you form and connect your letters and wonder about where that comes from.
How to Throw a Great Party
by Izzy Nunez | Mar 28, 2025 | Michigan
You need the right blend of ‘we all know each other, but there is room for something wild to happen.’
How Find a Forgotten Book’s Title
by Annaka Koster | Mar 26, 2025 | Placeless
“I don’t remember the title but the cover was red” was the first library meme you ever encountered.
How To Explain Your Love of the Damned to your Christian Family
by Sam Koster | Mar 25, 2025 | Placeless
If your only options are a Hell that fully embraces you and a Heaven that will only accept a part of you, the choice seems clear.
How to Be a Philosopher in the 21st Century?
by Sophia Medawar | Mar 24, 2025 | Placeless
Plato wrote nothing on the societal ramifications of normalizing nose jobs, Botox, or face-lifts.
How to Be Remarkably Mid at GeoGuessr
by Mitchell Barbee | Mar 23, 2025 | Placeless
It’s taken nearly three years, but I’m finally getting to a point where I don’t confuse Central America and South America.
How to Give a Stranger Your Home Address
by Savannah Shustack | Mar 22, 2025 | Placeless
Small talk is the price one must pay to eventually become known.
How to Do Things Alone (And Like It)
by Emily Joy Stroble | Mar 21, 2025 | Placeless
Live like you’re in a Ghibli montage.
How to Be an Amateur
by Rylan Shewmaker | Mar 20, 2025 | Placeless
You should be doing something for pleasure, and you should be kind of bad at it.
How to Finish a Painting Without Losing Your Mind
by Hannah McNulty | Mar 19, 2025 | Placeless
Oops, you don’t have time for a crisis—the paints are drying as we speak.
How to Make a Playlist
by Isaac DeBoer | Mar 18, 2025 | Placeless
Having trouble starting? In a rut? Create some arbitrary rules or themes and stick to them to paradoxically set your creative mind free.
How to Boil Egg and Other Things I’ve Recently Googled
by Carlisle Patete | Mar 17, 2025 | Placeless
I forgot what gremlins were called.
How to Convince Your Friends to Play DnD
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Mar 16, 2025 | Placeless
“I’ll make a cheese plate for every session!”
How to Get a Badreads Review From Me
by Noah Keene | Mar 14, 2025 | Placeless
The next books in the series were improvements, in the same way that breaking a finger is an improvement over breaking your spine.
How to Calm Your Nervous System
by Olivia Harre | Mar 13, 2025 | Placeless
You are living in a world where we are constantly connected and bombarded with news of terrible things happening globally at every second. No biggie!
How to Trust Your Characters
by Liana Hirner | Mar 12, 2025 | Placeless
Just because I have the power to create characters doesn’t mean I have the power to make them do whatever I want.
How to Ruin a Date
by Gabrielle Eisma | Mar 11, 2025 | Placeless
I should ask him his name, I thought. He somehow knows I don’t like coffee, and I don’t even know his name.
