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Coaches
by Calah Schlabach | Mar 20, 2014 | Placeless
I have had a lot of coaches in my life, and each of them has taught me something (most have taught me more than I can remember).
The Cycle of Grocery Stores
by Mary Margaret Healy | Mar 19, 2014 | Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania
And what greater grocery store is there in this universe, I ask you? Its hours of operation: endless. Its selection of salty snacks: both wide and economical.
Love Thy Neighbor
by Matt & Laura Hubers | Mar 18, 2014 | Placeless
Bob moved into our assisted living facility about five months ago. I can’t believe it was that long ago. It feels like much longer. He has scared me from the day I met him.
Thin Air
by Geneva Langeland | Mar 17, 2014 | Placeless
What good is all this technology—our GPS satellites, our naval cruisers, our sonar arrays and passport checks and aerial photographs—if it can’t produce real answers?
Long Live Central Cemetery
by Andrew Knot | Mar 16, 2014 | Austria
there’s nothing central about Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery). Situated in Vienna’s southeast outskirts, the cemetery is nearly a full nine kilometers from the city’s first district.
Twenty-Somethings
by Sarah (VanderMolen) Sundt | Mar 14, 2014 | Placeless
Almost on a weekly basis, students ask me how old I am. I tell myself that it’s not appropriate to talk to students about personal matters like age, so I tell them I’m forty-three.
Jigsaw Pride
by Melissa Dykhuis | Mar 13, 2014 | Gambia
As we resumed walking, my dad turned his head toward me with a small grin. “He asked me if he could marry you,” he said. I felt my eyebrows go up.
One Art
by Abby Zwart | Mar 12, 2014 | Placeless
I hate losing things. I try really hard to stay organized because there is nothing more frustrating than losing an important scrap of paper or a sweater.
Worth It
by Elaine Schnabel | Mar 11, 2014 | Placeless
A salary is a good thing, and teaching is really pretty awesome once you get over the blank stares of students, and I’ve never actually disliked writing papers or doing research.
The Wolf of Wall Street
by David Greendonner | Mar 10, 2014 | Placeless
Jordan Belfort considers the agents (us, too, over his shoulder) as Denham produces the smoking gun: a yellow note in a clear evidence bag.
Recruit THIS
by Bart Tocci | Mar 9, 2014 | Placeless
I hated saying no to people. I’m slowly getting better at it. I would have joined the Marines because I didn’t want to hurt this nice Sergeant’s feelings.
Body Language
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Mar 7, 2014 | Hungary
As I walk slowly and methodically through the neck-high water, my surfaced head in a thin cloud of steam, I attempt to eavesdrop on all of the conversations.
A Day in the District
by Josh deLacy | Mar 6, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Orderly mobs with agendas of social change and economic prosperity flowed around me, people branded with “D.C. haircuts” and business casual.
We Have Now
by Alissa Anderson | Mar 5, 2014 | Placeless
Ash Wednesday is a reminder of mortality, as everyone—senior citizens and newborns alike—is reminded of an impending return to dust and ash.
Aquavitae: My Life in Four Drinks
by Andrew Steiner | Mar 4, 2014 | England, Scotland
In that crystalline moment, I knew that I had discovered something totally new. I glimpsed landscapes. I couldn’t speak.
Never, Never Have I Ever
by Sabrina Lee | Mar 3, 2014 | France
And so I entered the world of woods and two-toned scarves, of strange chants (all the more daunting in French) and sleeping bags.
Twitch Plays Pokémon
by Jacob Schepers | Mar 2, 2014 | Placeless
Suffice it to say that it’s been quite the couple of weeks for this strange, untamed corner of the Internet. A huge waste of time? You betcha. But…
That Awkward Stage
by Amy (Allen) Frieson | Mar 1, 2014 | Placeless
All shall be well, said Julian of Norwich. Now that I’m growing up at last, somehow I’m starting to really think it will be.(Someone please smack me over the head with that paragraph the next time I start whining.)
Violence and Choice in Dishonored
by Stephen Mulder | Feb 28, 2014 | Placeless
Now, I’m not going to pretend that how one chooses to play a video game necessarily says anything meaningful about their personal moral character.
Dying of Thirst
by Brad Zwiers | Feb 27, 2014 | Placeless
I try and roll out of the fetal position and into some semblance of a standing straight-back stretch, but I can’t hold the stretch for long though, because like I said, I am dying of thirst.
An Unexpected Response to “Pro-choice at Calvin”
by Griffin Jackson | Feb 26, 2014 | Placeless
If Chimes were to print only Synod-sanctioned journalism, it would have become merely propaganda. That’s not what we want for our students.
A Eulogy for My Grandfather
by Bethany Tap | Feb 25, 2014 | Placeless
I miss listening to those stories. Still, I will never again hear him begin a tale with, “Did I ever tell you about…?” Yes, Grandpa, you did. But tell me again.
Vocation and Valyrian Steel
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Feb 24, 2014 | Placeless
Imagine every other story you’ve ever loved. Imagine reading Harry Potter with the certainty that somebody’s going to Avada Kedavra the kid any page now.
8 Reasons Why I’m Glad I’m Not Published
by Jenn Langefeld | Feb 23, 2014 | Placeless
Eight years ago yesterday, I announced I was a novel writer. So February 22 is Decision to Write Day, and I bust out the cake.
A Frost-y Weekend
by Robert Zandstra | Feb 22, 2014 | Oregon
We climb on nature’s back to build a heavenly Babel, but it is nature that sets us back on earth, where we were created, where we belong.
Namaste…Maybe
by Libby Stille | Feb 21, 2014 | Placeless
A few poses after my micro-revelation, the yoga instructor said something similar. “We need to be comfortable in the uncomfortable, in yoga and in life.”
Valentine’s Birthday
by Calah Schlabach | Feb 20, 2014 | Cambodia, Vietnam
I tried to embrace my birthday by liking all heart-decorated things, making these symbolic of myself. I had a belt that was made of heart-shaped links. Things like that.
Hymns and Church and Me
by Mary Margaret Healy | Feb 19, 2014 | Chicago
I stopped resenting hymns about the same time I decided in my heart to be a history minor. When I started studying the past, I quickly developed an involuntary joy in feeling connected to that past.
Men, Sports, and Such Things
by Matt & Laura Hubers | Feb 18, 2014 | Placeless
“Oh, you play fantasy football with your husband? That’s so cute!” It is not cute. It’s competitive and occasionally slightly unhealthy for our marriage.
Kiss the Sky
by Geneva Langeland | Feb 17, 2014 | Russia
Skaters face skull-cracking ice and flying metal blades; lugers zoom at 80 miles per hour. Hockey players lose teeth, skiers blow out knees.
