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Ode to the Memories

by Aemelia Tripp | Jan 30, 2020 | Placeless

Like if I stand still for too long, I’ll melt into a little grief puddle.

My Love Affair with Language

by Erin Haagsma | Jan 29, 2020 | Placeless

Linguistics helps us rediscover the gift of language, a gift that we haven’t lost but have neglected to say thank you for.

Of Falcons and Folly

by Jon Gorter | Jan 28, 2020 | Ann Arbor

Out of the corner of my eye, a grey bolt of lightning shot out from behind the gothic-style church on the corner across from North Quad.

RIP Kobe

by Brad Zwiers | Jan 27, 2020 | Placeless

Kobe Bryant was more than a basketball player; that much has never been in doubt.

Snail Saga, Pt. 1: Carl Sagan the Ukrainian Mail-Order Snail

by Annaka Koster | Jan 26, 2020 | Michigan

myhappysnails.com had assured me: “There is no smell in the place where snails live in.”

Prayers of the People

by Katie Van Zanen | Jan 25, 2020 | Placeless

Each week during the prayers of the people I make a mental inventory: do I know anyone who is ill? Anyone who is grieving? Anyone job-searching, traveling, celebrating?

Talking in Circles

by Leigh Peterson | Jan 24, 2020 | Placeless

In other words, though our memories and fantasies are more silhouettes of sensations than sensations themselves, past, present, and future all look more or less the same.

Why Everyone Should Try Karaoke

by Alex Westenbroek | Jan 23, 2020 | Placeless

People have been singing to each other since approximately Forever B.C.E., and I think there’s a reason.

This is Living

by Kelli Grimm | Jan 22, 2020 | Placeless

It’s a road trip to New York and it’s eating cookie dough until you’re sick. It’s a rejection email from a job you don’t remember applying for and it’s winning free fries for a year.

The Steward of Gondor is Dead

by Emily Joy Stroble | Jan 21, 2020 | Placeless

What is it like to have your life swallowed up in someone else’s epic?

Saturn’s Return

by Gabe Gunnink | Jan 20, 2020 | Placeless

Here’s the thing: I don’t know what a goatsphynx is, but I’m starting to believe it may not be as scary as it sounds.

The Lost Nerds of the 1980s

by Mary Margaret Healy | Jan 19, 2020 | Placeless

Mana, spell slots, pocket monsters, and midnight showings are all these worlds ever need.

Interpreter of Maladies

by Ben DeVries | Jan 18, 2020 | Placeless

I’ve kept revisiting the fact of Jes’s sickness, worrying it as I would a loose tooth, over and over again, in one essay after another.

The Coastline Paradox

by Laura Sheppard Song | Jan 17, 2020 | Placeless

I find myself erasing paragraphs from my drafts in which I apologize for writing it at all.

Crushing It

by Kyric Koning | Jan 16, 2020 | Grand Rapids

Discovering each new piece of her was a treasure only surpassed by the next discovery. It did not take too long before she agreed to make our relationship official.