Monthly Archives: April 2017
by Anonymous | Apr 30, 2017 |
I feared my grandfather’s model ship, meticulous and as long as my body.
by Matt Beukema | Apr 29, 2017 |
Are those not good enough reasons to study history?
by Bekah (Williamson) Medendorp | Apr 28, 2017 |
Equation A: be ambitious and industrious, do not leave the workplace to the mercy of the weak minded men. Fight + win + conquer, all while rocking 6 inch stilettos and maintaining strong sex-appeal^10.
by Brad Zwiers | Apr 27, 2017 |
I don’t know. Two albums that have ripped my heart open, made me cry, left me at a loss for words. I think that’s transcendent.
by Nick Meekhof | Apr 26, 2017 |
“Chillermania,” I whispered to myself with reverence. “The World Headquarters.” My heart leapt with excitement.
by Jack Van Allsburg | Apr 25, 2017 |
This is where we are. The reduction of a decades-long debate with life-changing ramifications to a billboard. Or a bumper sticker. Or a sound bite.
by Julia LaPlaca | Apr 23, 2017 |
Like many a literary grouch before him, Ove’s icy winter of life thaws before his final curtain.
by Matt Medendorp | Apr 22, 2017 |
Comfort is a much needed salve, and respite for the parched and thirsty, but it’s good to remember we can also drown.
by Andrew Orlebeke | Apr 21, 2017 |
“Something happened when the White House got demystified. The impression was left that anybody could do it.”
by Gabe Gunnink | Apr 20, 2017 |
Christmas is always the musk of dusty angel robes and glow of Christmas tree lights on the hardwood floor. Easter, however, is rarely the same twice.
by Mary Margaret Healy | Apr 19, 2017 |
I didn’t cry at this graduation, like I did all those years ago on the stage of my elementary school, but I would cry later.
by Ben DeVries | Apr 18, 2017 |
I’ve found that the mundanities of teaching quickly and quietly bleed a name of its import.
by Geneva Langeland | Apr 17, 2017 |
As readers might recall from Season 1 and Season 2, I’d allowed podcasts to become a steady burble of background noise flowing through my waking, non-working hours.
by Andrew Knot | Apr 16, 2017 |
There are other surmised explanations for the rooster’s place on church steeples, but this account seems the most plausible to me.
by Cassie Westrate | Apr 15, 2017 |
There is something about watching people pick out spaghetti sauce, and knowing they will cook and eat a meal together, leave dirty dishes in a sink together, that makes me ache.
by Will Montei | Apr 14, 2017 |
So much of poetry is naming things.
by Catherine Kramer | Apr 13, 2017 |
When I get a job, I will have a brand-new wardrobe to match my brand-new job. I’m not sure where all these new clothes will come from, but most likely Olivia Pope’s closet.
by Abby Zwart | Apr 12, 2017 |
I know which cashier is the fastest, which one is the nicest, and which one packs my reusable grocery bags like her own personal Tetris championship.
by Elaine Schnabel | Apr 11, 2017 |
My students rarely say “no,” however. They say “It’s difficult” or “I’m tired,” because from their perspective they are trying.
by Katie Van Zanen | Apr 10, 2017 |
I didn’t know how to write about a rain jacket on Palm Sunday after forty-four people died in their churches.
by Bart Tocci | Apr 9, 2017 |
When you start to recognize people and places, and you start to be recognized, you start to feel home. Re-cognize—from the Latin cognoscere, “to know.” To re-know, or to know again.
by Paul Menn | Apr 8, 2017 |
I have so many half-baked ideas rattling around in my brain, interesting websites bookmarked for inspiration, words and sentences hastily scrawled on Post-It Notes.
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Apr 7, 2017 |
Mostly, I pace. While I pace, I think about what I’ll make for dinner. I think about the fact that I’ll have time to make dinner because we test again tomorrow so that means no lesson planning.
by Josh deLacy | Apr 6, 2017 |
I recently discovered the healthy, frugal, “have my shit together” magic known as a crockpot, specifically, a brown-and-tan, floral relic from my parents’ wedding that in a roundabout Oedipal way, led to the traumatization of my penis.
by Alissa Anderson | Apr 5, 2017 |
I would even go so far as to say that tidying, a good spring cleaning that freshens any staleness that has settled in over a long winter, can be a spiritual practice.
by Ben Rietema | Apr 4, 2017 |
For Christianity, press one. For Judaism, press two. For Islam, press three. For Atheism, please hang up and try again.
by Meg Schmidt | Apr 3, 2017 |
So I understand the benefits of the simple, unfussy communion of my childhood. It’s much neater, less ripe with possibilities for awkwardness.
by Jacob Schepers | Apr 2, 2017 |
Every spring, Notre Dame holds a half-marathon called (surprise, surprise) “The Holy Half.”
by Katerina Parsons | Apr 1, 2017 |
Here I’m asked to explain it: why we talk so loudly, why we dress so sloppy, why we elected Donald Trump.
