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by Liana Hirner | Feb 12, 2025 | Placeless

It took us time to get used to John’s presence.

My Bad Reads on Goodreads

by Gabrielle Eisma | Feb 11, 2025 | Placeless

I actually might knock this out of the hands of my enemies to save them from reading it.

Beginnings, Endings, and Rituals

by Philip Rienstra | Feb 10, 2025 | Placeless

I couldn’t help but feel like there should have been more ceremony about it, or some kind of concrete ritual. Ribbons, maybe?

Keeping Tabs

by Gwyneth Findlay | Feb 9, 2025 | Placeless

I’m not looking at every fabric on the internet. I’m not looking at every news story either.

The Other Grammys

by Josh Parks | Feb 8, 2025 | Placeless

The piece is therefore about both an escape from the material and a return to it: its horn calls and dance rhythms are both earthbound and transcendent.

The Great British Part of the Great British Bake Off

by Kate Wilmot | Feb 7, 2025 | Placeless

Sue Perkins suddenly whisks the camera away to Oxfordshire to ask a scholar about what he calls “sexy bread:” cake.

A New Method of Staying Productive

by Loran Vanden Bosch | Feb 6, 2025 | Placeless

Fitness
Setting #1: run four miles
Setting #2: run one to two miles with weightlifting
Setting #3: run three miles with weightlifting

Me & The People I Watch Play Video Games

by Alex Johnson | Feb 5, 2025 | Placeless

As life got busier and games got one hundred percent more expensive for me (because my parents weren’t buying them for me anymore), the scales fell from my eyes.

Speak a Better World

by Ansley Kelly | Feb 3, 2025 | Placeless

Our chosen words are the latticeworks upon which our worldviews are grown and shaped.

It’s All Too Much

by Sam Tuit | Feb 1, 2025 | Placeless

I don’t want to get used to the chaos, but history says I will.

Six Years Later

by Michael Klingenberg | Jan 31, 2025 | Grand Rapids

But if you asked me when the hardest time of my life was, I’d tell you it was in my three years in college.

2024 Confessions

by Izzy Nunez | Jan 28, 2025 | Placeless

I ghosted my therapist.

The Killing Fields

by Anna Jeffries | Jan 27, 2025 | Placeless

I can’t survive with the wideness I want.

Learning to Speak Librarian

by Annaka Koster | Jan 26, 2025 | Placeless

People say “PIN number,” even though the N stands for number.

Nonbinary Dating and Victor/Victoria

by Sam Koster | Jan 25, 2025 | Placeless

I shouldn’t have to achieve some kind of perfect androgyny in order to have my identity respected.

Fresh&Fit on Flagrant 2

by Sophia Medawar | Jan 24, 2025 | Placeless

This kind of behavior and mindset doesn’t promote positive, healthy, trusting, and authentic relationships; in fact, it guarantees the opposite.

The Highs and Lows of Being a Bandwagon Fan

by Mitchell Barbee | Jan 23, 2025 | Placeless

It looked like I had been gifted the glory without the pain.

TikTok Is in Trouble, But Then, So Are We

by Savannah Shustack | Jan 22, 2025 | Placeless

To think that we can use social media without being influenced by it is the height of arrogance.

Par for the Comfort

by Emily Joy Stroble | Jan 21, 2025 | Placeless

I had totally conflated “my best” and “the best.”

A Road Trip Podcast Cure for the Winter Blues

by Rylan Shewmaker | Jan 20, 2025 | Placeless

When Scott, Drew, Rosi, and Jane finally arrive at the finish line, I felt as if I’d completed something of significance myself.

(Unconventionally) Rating New Experiences in 2024

by Hannah McNulty | Jan 19, 2025 | Placeless

Weekly square dancing is like doing your astronomy lab homework: it’s more mathematical than you hoped, but at least you’re having fun.

Spotify Ruined Music for Me

by Isaac DeBoer | Jan 18, 2025 | Placeless

I’m cheating on music with podcasts and, unfortunately, there’s no marriage counselor for this sort of thing.

Engagement: Just Inconvenient Enough

by Carlisle Patete | Jan 17, 2025 | Placeless

A wedding is one of the few ceremonies that society deems all right to ask people to fly or drive across multiple states to celebrate. And that is a rare opportunity I don’t want to waste.