Monthly Archives: December 2017
by Abby Zwart | Dec 31, 2017
On this last day of the year, the post calvin would like to suggest some tunes for your New Year’s Eve festivities. Check out the Spotify playlist here, or just listen to the choice from your favorite writer.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 30, 2017
Each of us have chosen a few favorite posts and a handful of honorable mentions. Read on to see what you might have missed this year on the post calvin!
by Stephanie Bradshaw | Dec 29, 2017
Most people say that I shouldn’t let anything hold me back from doing great things. But I don’t have much desire to do great things. What are great things without the small things?
by Matt Coldagelli | Dec 28, 2017
Shrouded in myth, internship was spoken of in the same way people talk about Voldemort: they act as if it’s taboo, but they all secretly love to spread their anxiety and feel a bit naughty.
by Brad Zwiers | Dec 27, 2017
The show covers a lot of emotional and psychological ground, but in the midst of watching it through a second time, I’m struck by its representation of physical and emotional vulnerability.
by Nick Meekhof | Dec 26, 2017
It was classy enough to rise above the dive bar ranks, but not so swanky that you couldn’t waltz in there with sweatpants and flip-flops.
by Jack Van Allsburg | Dec 25, 2017
It’s really a reflection on what it means to be part of anything, both by birth and by choice, something universal, but told with a strong Dutch-American “accent.”
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Dec 24, 2017
To a large degree, the underlying argument of the Net Neutrality debate can be traced to the basic tenets of the two primary political party systems in the United States: Big Government vs. Small Government.
by Julia LaPlaca | Dec 23, 2017
Why this part of the story? Why is this heavenly exchange, from a narrative full of divine meetings, such a favorite in western Christian art?
by Paula Manni | Dec 22, 2017
Perhaps answers come in the weight. Listen, lean in, linger. There is something here in this suspended scribble.
by Michael Lentz | Dec 22, 2017
This year, I’ve been in a kind of retrograde. I’m moving forward, but in some ways, it can appear like I’m moving backward.
by Andrew Orlebeke | Dec 21, 2017
I concede that the events of this year have been, on balance, terrible. But if you lift up your head for a moment and try to look forward, lots of good things are happening.
by Gabe Gunnink | Dec 20, 2017
Stefon, I’m genuinely afraid to ask, but what is a human vending machine?
by Mary Margaret Healy | Dec 19, 2017
My little bubble of relationships and routines exists for me to serve it with compassion, not for me to overlook it because something more interesting is on the horizon.
by Ben DeVries | Dec 18, 2017
Still, having experienced it myself now, I can sympathize with the twinge I’m about to give my many well-meaning English teachers when I divulge this next bit of information.
by Tony Ditta | Dec 17, 2017
I’m not totally clear on the distinction between Great Britain, the United Kingdom, and the British Isles.
I wish the employees at the restaurants I frequent would pretend they’ve never seen me before.
by Andrew Knot | Dec 16, 2017
The story has been told, but the rest of us are still here: waiting in the middle of the narrative, confronted with Herod’s uncomfortable realization: we aren’t enough.
by Cassie Westrate | Dec 15, 2017
The scale runs from zero to five cheeses, with five cheeses reigning supreme for the lamest pick up lines and most predictable plots. Warning: contains spoilers.
by Catherine Kramer | Dec 13, 2017
What are your goals for the coming year? How can your manager support you in meeting these goals?
by Abby Zwart | Dec 12, 2017
In a world where fame and infamy
are two sides of the same coin,
who gets to leave a legacy, anyway?
by Elaine Schnabel | Dec 11, 2017
One of the best critiques of our generation is that we are so busy deconstructing things, we stand for nothing.
by Jenna Griffin | Dec 10, 2017
Eventually you have to look these fears in the face, and you have to sit with the things, both true and false, that you believe about yourself.
by Bart Tocci | Dec 9, 2017
A lot of people talk about turning thirty like you’re turning dead.
by Paul Menn | Dec 8, 2017
My daughter will be here at the end of February. I am a mix of emotions.
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Dec 7, 2017
I am baffled as I listen to TV reporters and NPR correspondents struggle to reconcile their love for someone with the terrible things that person did. We all love people who have done horrible things.
by Josh deLacy | Dec 6, 2017
I stood ten feet away from Kate Stables in the front row of an audience that barely totaled twenty people, and yet This Is the Kit wasn’t playing for us. They didn’t even know we were there.
by India Daniels | Dec 5, 2017
The room was smaller than I expected, square with leaded glass windows and peeling paint, a water-stained chartreuse couch and scattered chairs.
by Caitlin Gent | Dec 4, 2017
“Oh! Like ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,’ except with bits of conversation. Without, like, any sort of context or link in between?”
by Meg Schmidt | Dec 3, 2017
It’s not the kitchen I imagined. In fact, it’s nowhere near the kitchen I imagined.
But there’s no place I’m happier in.
by Carolyn Muyskens | Dec 2, 2017
This is why Lady Bird is the perfect holiday movie; ultimately, Lady Bird asks us to reckon with what we’ve been given by our parents and by the places we grew up in.
