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The Front Runner
by Gabe Gunnink | Feb 20, 2019 | Washington
Her writing was an act of taking a love that for centuries had been pushed to the margins and defiantly sticking it on the center of the page.
On Homeownership, Citizenship, and Stewardship
by Mary Margaret Healy | Feb 19, 2019 | Placeless
Maybe the heating bills could have been lower. Maybe this leak wouldn’t have happened. Maybe my house wouldn’t be sick.
Going Back
by Ben DeVries | Feb 18, 2019 | Placeless
So what happens, then, when this desire for mastery, reinforced by habit and nourished by the stories we tell and the media we consume, begins to look elsewhere for fulfillment?
Liner Notes with Tony, Part IV: Scandinavian Invasion
by Tony Ditta | Feb 17, 2019 | Placeless
There’s something about how she says “weird now” that sounds distinctly Northern European to me. I can’t quite place it.
Pizza and Other Memories
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2019 | Cologne, Placeless
Innamorato operates on its own timeline, hardly accountable to anything but the desire of its owner to make good pies.
On Val/Galentine’s Day
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Feb 15, 2019 | Placeless
A craving for apples doesn’t vanish just because you planted an orange tree.
The Other Manhattan
by Olivia Harre | Feb 13, 2019 | Kansas
“It has letters like the Hollywood Sign, so it’s basically the same thing.”
Song of Myself
by Abby Zwart | Feb 12, 2019 | Placeless
dinner for two
at a blessedly quiet establishment
except the waiter is in training
and keeps bothering us
The Undeniable Charm of The Great British Baking Show
by Matt Cambridge | Feb 11, 2019 | Placeless
“Is it a reality show?” Well, technically, yes, I suppose.
Still Learning from Mister Rogers
by Jenna Griffin | Feb 10, 2019 | Placeless
The reason we try to change as people is because we all have the power to change the world.
Worth the Writing
by Gwyneth Findlay | Feb 9, 2019 | Placeless
Some jobs, some hobbies, some lives are worth the writing. I don’t find that mine are.
By Love Alone?
by Josh Parks | Feb 8, 2019 | Placeless
Way to show those probably-reprobate, semi-Pelagian Catholics, Mel! Sola freaking fide.
I Spent January with Yoga and the Enneagram
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Feb 7, 2019 | Placeless
I did it because the studio was across the street and doing an incentive program where I got the next two months at a discount if I completed the challenge.
Mono(nucleosis)
by Josh deLacy | Feb 6, 2019 | Placeless
Do you have flu-like symptoms? Do you feel tired all the time? Do you feel just fine? If so, you might have mono! Who knows!
Facebook and the Recently Deceased
by India Daniels | Feb 5, 2019 | Placeless
I am down one more link that could help me make sense of this family.
chill lofi hip hop beats to study/relax to
by Cotter Koopman | Feb 2, 2019 | Placeless
But maybe ironically, I’m rarely in the mood for my “favorite” albums: fixtures of music I champion as satisfying or well-crafted artistic achievements, blah blah blah. Beauty like that can sap a lot of energy.
Down with New Year’s Resolutions
by Katerina Parsons | Feb 1, 2019 | Placeless
Our lives simply don’t work as a checklist.
Black Balloons Revisited
by Hope Velthouse | Jan 31, 2019 | Placeless
I forgot that you can sometimes not try very hard and still fail.
A Letter to a Younger Me
by Hayley Cox | Jan 30, 2019 | Placeless
If I could write a letter to a younger me, I’d tell her to hurry up.
Airports
by Ye In Oh | Jan 29, 2019 | Placeless
The airport is where you can take a breath between destinations and deadlines as well as responsibilities and people that you don’t want to face yet.
Diaries of a Traveling Therapist
by Matt Coldagelli | Jan 28, 2019 | Arizona
I have gagged on the suffocating stench emanating from chicken farms down the road from one of my client’s schools. Each day is truly a new and unique day.
Power Through Writer’s Block in 7 Easy Steps
by Brad Zwiers | Jan 27, 2019 | Placeless
Sometimes it feels like that’s all you’ve written about, only variations on a theme, the same thing spun a thousand different ways. Let the mystery…
I Wish Country Songs Were Still Sad
by Nick Meekhof | Jan 26, 2019 | Placeless
Music changes, and change is good.
Putting My Underwear on Backwards
by Katie Van Zanen | Jan 25, 2019 | Hungary, Massachusetts, Romania
Perhaps my first mistake was expecting that I would ever entirely grow out of it.
git gud, noob: Meditations for the New Year
by Leigh Peterson | Jan 24, 2019 | Grand Rapids
This year, and any time you play Dark Souls, you will rush into something, and you will fail. You will take your time at something, and you will fail—even at something you’ve done easily a hundred times before.
Used Things, Old Things, Worn-but-good-enough Things: A Defense
by Julia LaPlaca | Jan 23, 2019 | Placeless
As we receive and give our things away, we perpetuate a legacy of generous exchange.
Instagram Accounts to Spark Your Joy in 2019
by Sadie Burgher | Jan 21, 2019 | Placeless
It was high time for a serious KonMari discard session, and over the course of a couple of days I gleefully tapped the “unfollow” button dozens of times.
The Way I Came
by Gabe Gunnink | Jan 20, 2019 | Grand Rapids, Seattle
This February, the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be disassembled. Trucks and cranes will shake loose the concrete foundations before an earthquake has the pleasure, and I’m beginning to realize that I will never be able to leave Seattle the way I came.
A Yinzer Yankee in the Lonestar State
by Mary Margaret Healy | Jan 19, 2019 | Texas
But for now, all I can think about is how out of place my Christmas trees looked when my neighbors have a cactus naturally growing in their front yard. And I will envy all y’all yanks up there.
Aquaman and Its Discontents
by Ben DeVries | Jan 18, 2019 | Placeless
While the film isn’t without interesting ideas—the notion of an environmental reckoning, for one—these ideas dart, glimmering and mostly unconsidered, through the nets that Aquaman reserves for its preferred but drabber game: the return of the king.
