Archives | the post calvin

Dear Ex-best Friend

by Michelle Hoffman | Aug 29, 2019 | Placeless

We went to different high schools. We got jobs. Life got busy and we hung out less.

Bean Therapy

by Jon Gorter | Aug 28, 2019 | Placeless

Over the past four months I’ve had the privilege of cultivating some of the world’s finest beans.

House Hunt

by Brad Zwiers | Aug 27, 2019 | Grand Rapids

The house listed around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, we walked through it at 3:30, and we wrote on it by 11:00 a.m. Friday. We weren’t the first offer.

Michigan Gods

by Annaka Koster | Aug 26, 2019 | Michigan

I’m not scared of the gods that inhabit these places per se; I’m just wary of the humans who built them.

My Best Advice

by Katie Van Zanen | Aug 25, 2019 | Placeless

I spend a fair bit of time with first year college students. I am sometimes envious of them.

Aesop’s Heretofore Undiscovered Fables, August 2019

by Leigh Peterson | Aug 24, 2019 | Placeless

Moral: Take care, even when ye be in Haeyste, to not do that which woulde Waste Tyme later, for from Haeyste proceedeth only Waeyste.

First Dog-Cousin, Once Removed

by Alex Westenbroek | Aug 23, 2019 | Minnesota

Clark and Tessie came immediately to the back screen door, already vocalizing their hunger. No Lewis.

Things That Happened to Me in My First Two Weeks at Calvin

by Sadie Burgher | Aug 22, 2019 | Grand Rapids

The memory of their faces in this moment is one of two life events that can make me cry on cue.

Lucille Bald

by Emily Joy Stroble | Aug 21, 2019 | Placeless

Have you ever noticed how intimate sitcoms are?

A Brief Account of Recent Miracles

by Gabe Gunnink | Aug 20, 2019 | Washington

I’m writing about the extraordinary.

Inevitable Forward Movement

by Mary Margaret Healy | Aug 19, 2019 | Texas

How many other transitions in life are like this: inevitable, beautiful, a blessing, and a pain so deep its aches reverberate through generations.

Jes

by Ben DeVries | Aug 18, 2019 | Placeless

Between the Jes I think I know and that other Jes, the inexhaustible Jes, the one who slips briefly into view whenever she offers an unexpected comment, a laugh out of place, a sideways glance.

The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Holy Land

by Laura Sheppard Song | Aug 17, 2019 | Israel

You wait to feel something, see a vision, hear a heavenly voice. But it’s quiet. The tomb is empty.

Take a Shine

by Kyric Koning | Aug 16, 2019 | Placeless

Light, after all, functions as both a particle and a wave.

tsunamis along the coast

by Will Montei | Aug 14, 2019 | Placeless

what if status updates become souls.

Apartment Shopping at IKEA: A Progression

by Olivia Harre | Aug 13, 2019 | Placeless

Oh forget it, I’ll just buy everything online.

Watch and Learn

by Abby Zwart | Aug 12, 2019 | Placeless

It’s a little weird that I, of all people, feel nervous being watched. Being watched is literally my job.

Shorts Without Pockets and Other Hardships

by Matt Cambridge | Aug 11, 2019 | Placeless

Alas, I know my life is difficult, even torturous.

The Dress Code is Business Professional

by Jordan Petersen Kamp | Aug 10, 2019 | Placeless

I get why a customer might need to believe I am serious and resolute in my work and not somebody who has the Wikipedia page for Pokémon open on another browser.

Reminders to the Self of Five Days Ago

by Gwyneth Findlay | Aug 9, 2019 | Placeless

I’ll forgive you for ignoring all of this if you just answer your emails.

A Report from Nerd Camp

by Josh Parks | Aug 8, 2019 | Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, New York

This workshop is tuition-free, assignment-free, and pretty stress-free, but soon I’ll be back at my own school, and the cloud of duties will descend.

The Positively Phototactic Beetles of East Hampton

by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Aug 7, 2019 | New York

They must have died eventually, the ones that we didn’t scoop out.

What Climbing a Cascade Volcano Feels Like

by Josh deLacy | Aug 6, 2019 | Washington

Cognitive functions deteriorate with exhaustion; I once hallucinated midnight bicyclists and figures running through the woods after summiting Mt. Rainier.