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1.8-Lingual
by Matt Coldagelli | Aug 28, 2017 | Placeless
It’s one thing to order pork or enchiladas, but I’ve reached a level of fluency where I want to take my skills beyond family and friends.
Perils of a Bargain
by Brad Zwiers | Aug 27, 2017 | Placeless
The moral of this parable? Never buy a computer. They never should have been invented. Never buy a computer on a bargain because bargains are a lie. Everyone in the sales world is out to rip you off.
Five Campsites That Were NOT Insta-Worthy
by Nick Meekhof | Aug 26, 2017 | Michigan, Virginia
In the middle of a freezing rain, we reached Dick’s Dome, a geodesic dome built to sleep four persons. There were eighteen people there.
Thanks for the Cat
by Jack VA | Aug 25, 2017 | Placeless
I had actually forgotten that I could just go buy a pet.
On More Than Just Love & Marriage
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Aug 24, 2017 | Placeless
It has always seemed weird to me that everyone is so cautionary about the permanence of tattoos and so encouraging about the permanence of marriage.
Help!
by Julia LaPlaca | Aug 23, 2017 | Ohio
I always tried to do the independent thing first—I’ll call my own tow-truck, I’ll look for my own apartment, I’ll find a job, I’ll pick a grad program.
Reminders App: A Stratigraphy
by Paula Manni | Aug 22, 2017 | Placeless
Following is a stratigraphic analysis of the Reminders app on my iPhone—my August 2017 recollections of three past years of reminders that were once “new and urgent.”
Charli XCX and the Female Gaze
by Gabe Gunnink | Aug 20, 2017 | Placeless
The song and video are so simply adorable that it would be tempting to brush them off as frivolous. But indulging that temptation would be dismissing a cultural commentary of Beyoncé proportions.
The Nose Knows Too Much
by Mary Margaret Healy | Aug 19, 2017 | Placeless
Moments like this, this spiraling existential crisis brought upon me by a bit of charred soy, are things that I thought wouldn’t carry over into adulthood.
Farewell, Orphan Black
by Ben DeVries | Aug 18, 2017 | Placeless
Like any good sci-fi tale, then, Orphan Black is finally far less interested in predicting what might be, than it is in describing what exists now.
My Three Best Jokes and Why They Were So Great
by Tony Ditta | Aug 17, 2017 | Placeless
And this is the mark of comedy greatness: it pushes us—not to a breaking point, but just outside what we thought was “good enough.”
The Prudent Keep Quiet in Such Times
by Andrew Knot | Aug 16, 2017 | Placeless
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
‘Dracula, the Musical?’ (A Review)
by Cassie Westrate | Aug 15, 2017 | Michigan
Throughout the performance, I can understand eighty percent of what he says and forty percent of what he sings because, well … because of his teeth.
Summer in the City
by Catherine Kramer | Aug 13, 2017 | New York
And if Regina Spektor happens to be giving a concert in Central Park on that particular Wednesday, who’s to say I have to move my painstakingly planned picnic?
In Defense of Habit
by Abby Zwart | Aug 12, 2017 | Placeless
But I also hold on to habits because they give me an unexpected freedom.
You Look Happy to Me
by Jenna Griffin | Aug 10, 2017 | Romania
They’re not always noble or pure, but then of course neither am I. We try our best, and sometimes people climb mountains just to see us blossom in the cold.
The Bloodmobile
by Bart Tocci | Aug 9, 2017 | Placeless
After a full bag, they unplugged me and fed me Cheez-Its and sent me on my way. I would soon discover that drinking a PBR immediately after giving blood isn’t a good idea
Losing Something That Was Never Really Ours
by Paul Menn | Aug 8, 2017 | Wisconsin
When my wife told me she was pregnant, it was the most surreal experience of my life.
Once Crossing The Hudson
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Aug 7, 2017 | New York
The next day is exactly like the first.
We don’t check the news.
Phones die on the picnic table while we swim.
A Sehnsuchtsvoll Website
by Josh deLacy | Aug 6, 2017 | Placeless
The fairness and insensitivity of this feels reassuring, like weather or death. Something I cannot change. Something that does not care about me.
On Second Grade Reading Lists
by India Daniels | Aug 5, 2017 | Chicago
As I’ve been moving my life into this new room, I’ve been dismantling the one in the southwest suburbs of Chicago where I slept in from the age of ten until I left for college.
In the Wind
by Caitlin Gent | Aug 4, 2017 | Grand Rapids
Milwaukee will always have my heart, but Grand Rapids tugs at it this morning, hard.
My Half-Baked and Biased Plans to Make the World A Better Place
by Meg Schmidt | Aug 3, 2017 | Placeless
I simply feel that I could make a few very small and practical changes that would improve our situation greatly.
10 / The Office will have ended when Jim and Pam got married.
Supercalifragilistic…
by Carolyn Muyskens | Aug 2, 2017 | Placeless
I have never been so closely scrutinized for every word that comes out of my mouth as I have been this summer, nannying for a family with three children ages seven, eleven, and twelve.
When I Cross the Street, Cars Stop for Me
by Katerina Parsons | Aug 1, 2017 | Honduras
I want to be better about recognizing their cousin—micro-advantages, micro-privileges that lead to a world that bends in my direction, that is softer with me, gentler.
Going Home
by Erin Koster | Jul 31, 2017 | Placeless
And if I’m being honest, moving home does feel like a failure. I went out into the big wide world with a suitcase and a dream and came back empty-handed.
Fragments of an Education in Zion
by Jenna Griffin | Jul 30, 2017 | Utah
Though they stay with us in a way, miracles do pass. The mountain disappeared almost as quickly as it had come, the sun set quicker than we imagined it would, and we had far to go in darkness.
Umeboshi No Tsukurikata, or How to Make Red Fermented Plums
by India Daniels | Jul 29, 2017 | Japan
I’ve come to appreciate this about Haruko. When I would rather stick to polite smiles and communication mediated by Shiki, she speaks Japanese at me and throws in English words, gestures, and images until I understand.
Aura-n’t You Glad This Didn’t Happen to You?
by Bekah (Williamson) Medendorp | Jul 28, 2017 | Arizona
I decided on aura photography because it is decently priced, comes with tangible evidence, and reminds me of Tapenga from Boy Meets World.
Hamilplans: Trying Not to Cry at Hamilton
by Brad Zwiers | Jul 27, 2017 | Chicago
An hour before Hamilton, we marched circles around the theater, trying to hold off seeing the Hamilton marquee (not Lafayette) till the exact right moment.
