Monthly Archives: November 2020
by Noah Schumerth | Nov 30, 2020 |
The dedication of one’s entire life to a community left their memory in a dusty room, largely visited by bored students on field trips and the occasional curious passersby.
by Grace Ruiter | Nov 29, 2020 |
In Hallmark, my worst fears never wrote the ending.
by Jon Gorter | Nov 28, 2020 |
Was this an encounter with some forest guardian, a mountain sprite who hikes miles through the misty mountains and sips water at hidden springs?
by Anna Jeffries VanZytveld | Nov 27, 2020 |
If arsenic is a woman’s weapon—whether to kill others or to beautify oneself—Lively’s character embraces the poison.
by Annaka Koster | Nov 26, 2020 |
For those who shout down ignorance even past the point of no return, who know we are less than two minutes from midnight and continue anyway.
by Katie Van Zanen | Nov 25, 2020 |
Like everything magical, though, the airship project was riddled with realities.
by Joshua Polanski | Nov 24, 2020 |
“According to Ptolemy, “Saturn will generally produce cold in the bowels, excessive phlegm, rheumatism, emaciation, sickliness, … [and/or] cough.” Seems about right.
by Alex Westenbroek | Nov 23, 2020 |
Maybe it’s an overindulgence in fantasy that makes all jewelry feel slightly magic.
by Kayleigh Fongers | Nov 22, 2020 |
It is my hope that we remember to use the breath we have in our lungs to speak up, to show mercy, and to act with love.
by Emily Joy Stroble | Nov 21, 2020 |
Eve is a bit like radium—taken from the father, who was taken from the earth. A byproduct. Twice derivative.
by Chad Westra | Nov 20, 2020 |
The act of donning this ridiculous suit enabled me to let go of the remaining hesitations I harbored about the questionable hot-weather hot-spring endeavor we had gotten ourselves into.
by Lillie Spackman | Nov 19, 2020 |
Being a terrifying nitrogen nerd is one of my brother’s very few failings, and in this case it turned out to be a great help.
by Ben DeVries | Nov 18, 2020 |
Silicon is, I think, a good standard-bearer for the present, because it reminds us that the abstract and the concrete are always intertwined.
by Laura Sheppard Song | Nov 17, 2020 |
Lithium might have been a symbol of comfort and release to these artists, but it’s not without its drawbacks.
by Kyric Koning | Nov 16, 2020 |
It was probably Jungle Jam and Friends which started another time-honored tradition of the Koning household: incessant quoting.
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Nov 15, 2020 |
When you cook, you play with fire, and (sooner or later) you’ll be playing with carbon too.
by Finnely King-Scoular | Nov 14, 2020 |
If we breathe disbelief and dismissal into the faces of marginalized people who are gasping for air, we are denying them so much more than simple affirmation.
by Olivia Harre | Nov 13, 2020 |
To perfectly capture the moment, the photo of my mom crossing the finish line includes me in the background, having lost the battle with my stomach and undoubtedly scarring fellow turkey-trotters for life.
by Klaas Walhout | Nov 12, 2020 |
Neon, the element named for the concept of novelty itself, is now hanging onto its public relevance by a thread of nostalgia.
by Lauren Cole | Nov 11, 2020 |
Perhaps what was most interesting to me about chemistry was the very fact that we could study something that was too small to see.
by Jordan Petersen Kamp | Nov 10, 2020 |
Along with portmanteaus like “Broseph” or “Broso” (for Spanish class), calling your friend “Bromine” in chemistry class was surely hilarious exactly one time but was still repeated many more times.
by Gwyneth Findlay | Nov 9, 2020 |
Still, naturally sourced iron barely meets the demands of even a one-step-above-casual player. Enter: iron farms.
by Josh Parks | Nov 8, 2020 |
How many times have Christians, distracted by their frantic, sixteenth-note lives, mistaken idolatry for piety?
by Susannah Boersma | Nov 7, 2020 |
If you haven’t read this masterpiece, please do yourself a favor and Amazon Prime that sucker in time for some weekend reading.
by Ben Orlebeke | Nov 6, 2020 |
We live in a country where nearly 70 million people made that choice, and we need to talk about it.
by Alex Johnson | Nov 5, 2020 |
Honestly, I have a plethora of metaphors to explore already: Satan can seem to bring light to the world but that isn’t the true light! Exposing things to the daylight makes them less dangerous! Capitalism makes people operate in a scarcity model which hinders progress!
by Comfort Sampong | Nov 4, 2020 |
And today, when I feel less than my full self in the midst of such urgency to be our best selves, I sway dangerously close to becoming firewood.
by Ansley Kelly | Nov 3, 2020 |
The rawness of this proximity to life makes me feel vulnerable, sort of like therapy but without the armchairs.
by Cotter Koopman | Nov 2, 2020 |
My brain shut off seeing “3-chloro-4-dichloromethyl5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone.”
by Katerina Parsons | Nov 1, 2020 |
I don’t want to think about the election right now.
