Monthly Archives: February 2016
by Josh Boerman | Feb 29, 2016 |
It’s a remnant of an earlier time, back when the High Line was simply an overgrown former elevated rail track and Gansevoort Street was stained red with the blood of slaughtered animals.
by Bekah (Williamson) Medendorp | Feb 28, 2016 |
Nothing is trendier or, as a teacher, more likely to get your story turned into a Hollywood film about how you helped an inner city kid become this century’s Twain than to be an English Literature teacher.
by Brad Zwiers | Feb 27, 2016 |
Keep talking. Eventually, you assume, something will make sense. Pieces and parts of pieces will be put together, and the sense-making that has happened in your head will become public knowledge.
by Nick Meekhof | Feb 26, 2016 |
Either the Brothers Grimm had a cunningly nonchalant attitude toward morbidity, or German children simply grew up with stronger stomachs in those days.
by Ryan Struyk | Feb 25, 2016 |
But mathematics at its best is a pursuit into the unknown, equipped with a few tools with which you are familiar and a solution that requires an innovative use for them.
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Feb 24, 2016 |
Be brave. Be smart. Make mistakes, but the smallish kind if you can help it. Call someone with high-waisted pants and have them buy you a milkshake.
by Matt Medendorp | Feb 22, 2016 |
All the world’s a men’s YMCA locker room, / And all the men merely exercisers; / They have their exits and their entrances / And varied levels of clothing, / And one man in his time wears many towels.
by Andrew Orlebeke | Feb 21, 2016 |
Kanye West didn’t say anything as his shovel joined the early-morning chorus. He liked his neighbor and might have greeted her, but he was still groggy and would have preferred to stay in bed.
by Gabe Gunnink | Feb 20, 2016 |
The wizarding world finds itself again divided on an issue as deep and recurring as blood: what to do about the Muggles.
by Mary Margaret Healy | Feb 19, 2016 |
If you pick a banana, some honey, and a bowl of instant oatmeal go to 5. If you choose an everything bagel and heaping serving of cream cheese, go to 4.
by Ben DeVries | Feb 18, 2016 |
There are other rules too, in addition to these. Sit tight. Speak clearly. Press CALL if you need anything. Know your medication (Trivora, prednisone, plaquenil, Tylenol). Have insurance.
by Geneva Langeland | Feb 17, 2016 |
The word was used to translate the Latin benedicere, or “to speak well of,” which was used to translate the Hebrew brk, or “to bend.” To bless, then is to bend toward holiness.
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2016 |
Vielkind fancies himself a portraitist. He sculpts the mountains many faces as a 19th century artist might have rendered a royal patron. His concern is showing the mountains at their best.
by Cassie Westrate | Feb 15, 2016 |
You’re always wondering what it means to live a good life. Someone sat at a table the other day, watched you wipe down a counter, and asked you if you want to serve coffee for the rest of your life.
by Will Montei | Feb 14, 2016 |
In the tops of the leafless bushes that stood shoulder height along the path, a sea of spider webs swayed in the soft wind—hundreds and hundreds of webs, perfectly spun and glistening with dew in the morning light.
by Catherine Kramer | Feb 13, 2016 |
“Galentine’s Day is about celebrating lady friends,” said the holiday’s founder, Leslie Knope of Pawnee, Indiana. “We leave our husbands and boyfriends at home and just come and kick it breakfast-style.”
by Abby Zwart | Feb 12, 2016 |
On the outskirts of town, there’s no telling where the snow ends and the sky begins. It’s hard to hear the glory today.
by Elaine Schnabel | Feb 11, 2016 |
But the bottle cap has disappeared into the space beneath the big, cold, white box. She has long since learned that is a dark place from which bottle caps do not return. She does not mourn its loss.
by Katie Van Zanen | Feb 10, 2016 |
The tutor listens quietly. The anxious student is her seventh of the day. It’s a decent paper already, and convincing the student to restructure might be more trouble than it’s worth.
by Bart Tocci | Feb 9, 2016 |
He walked around naked in the locker room because that’s what the older boys did. He seemed to be naked more than other people. He was the Chief, after all.
by Paul Menn | Feb 8, 2016 |
While Reeves is rightly lambasted for his wooden acting, sometimes he surprises you, as he did in the horror thriller Knock Knock. His rant about free pizza is a genius, Oscar-worthy performance.
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Feb 7, 2016 |
On Wednesday, your child turned in a list of ideas for creative writing assignments instead of the assigned argument essay. On Friday, I collected a love note from your child to another student in the class. It said…
by Josh deLacy | Feb 6, 2016 |
Ten-foot-tall green letters shout 21+ MARIJUANA to every northbound vehicle on Martin Luther King Jr Way. The arrow that runs beneath the letters points across the street to a stubby building marked by a green cross. 21+ Recreational Marijuana! hangs in the front window.
by Alissa Anderson | Feb 5, 2016 |
You do not get anything frozen, because your refrigerator sits under your counter, and the “freezer” area of it does not actually freeze anything.
by Ben Rietema | Feb 4, 2016 |
The answer can act as a balm; even speaking the name can reseal the permanent connection to the fact that travelers are not always traveling,
by Josh Betts | Feb 3, 2016 |
I realized then that he was calling from a house phone. I have become so used to caller ID coming in from cell phones that I never thought the information on my phone could be incorrect.
by Jacob Schepers | Feb 2, 2016 |
If you are reading this, congratulations. You received this from the past. You have the benefit of hindsight, recaps, twenty-four-hour news cycles.
by Katerina Parsons | Feb 1, 2016 |
English’s hegemony is causing the rapid and irreversable death of less-spoken languages, and with the death of these langauges die rich histories and cultures.
