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I Hope We Can Still Be Friends
by Bart Tocci | Mar 9, 2018 | Placeless
The main reason for the break up was something she called “bad timing.”
Portrait of a Recovering Alcoholic
by Paul Menn | Mar 8, 2018 | Placeless
482 days.
Confessions of a Calorie Counter
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Mar 7, 2018 | Placeless
You learn to love the foods that have nothing. Coffee. Mustard. Certain brands of hot sauce.
I Am Liking Myself
by Josh deLacy | Mar 6, 2018 | Placeless, Washington
“It doesn’t matter what you do,” I will tell my children, “as long as you like yourself better than you like most other people.”
Lows
by India Daniels | Mar 5, 2018 | Chicago
With a new pastor in the pulpit after a long stretch of interim pastors, I’ve been hopeful. But in the past few months, we’ve hit a new series of lows.
Burn After Reading
by Caitlin Gent | Mar 4, 2018 | Chicago, Illinois, Wisconsin
Jesse will be your second Tinder date, and your last.
A Prayer for the Twenty-Somethings
by Meg Schmidt | Mar 3, 2018 | Placeless
be with every late night job-searcher, every too-old-for-internships-er, all of us just looking for a step in the door. Be with the waiters who aren’t scientists yet, the sales clerks who aren’t published yet.
The “Local” in “Local News” Still Matters
by Carolyn Muyskens | Mar 2, 2018 | Placeless
All this to say: the place you live is not merely the setting to the story of your life.
I Speak with an Accent
by Katerina Parsons | Mar 1, 2018 | Honduras
What if we heard all accents this way—not as a sign that English is not one’s first language, but as a sign that another language is?
Discovering Self-Compassion
by Matt Coldagelli | Feb 28, 2018 | Placeless
But that’s not the world we actually inhabit, so why do we continue to encourage kids to engage in these comparisons? And why are we so terrified of negative emotions?
Snapshots
by Brad Zwiers | Feb 27, 2018 | California, Missouri, Wisconsin
We drove home and argued. Why was I so angry? About something so small? It’s not about that; it’s about the fact that I feel useless and nothing seems to be going the way it was supposed to go.
Near Death
by Nick Meekhof | Feb 26, 2018 | Grand Rapids
I did something I’d never done before: I started screaming for help.
The Hero Falls
by Jack VA | Feb 25, 2018 | Placeless
The reason I think about Samson often is that he was a legend, but he seems just as human as the rest of us. He was selfish, deceptive, and disobedient, and yet, we remember him as a hero.
Neighbors
by Julia LaPlaca | Feb 23, 2018 | Placeless
On Sunday, I came across a body, lying by the side of the road—an expanding pool of blood seeping from the head.
Eleven Things You Maybe Didn’t Know about Vegetables
by Paula Manni | Feb 22, 2018 | Placeless
There are seventeen weeks until summer—take the time to thank a local grower, and spend some quality time with an onion. Warm weather will be here soon.
Gays on Ice
by Gabe Gunnink | Feb 20, 2018 | Placeless
Which is why it is so wonderful to see Adam Rippon glorified for his femininity. And which is why it’s so wonderful to see that he does not carry the queer Olympic torch alone.
Fudge Everlasting
by Mary Margaret Healy | Feb 19, 2018 | Placeless
And we waited. I would leave for work, preparing myself for the possibility that it was the last time I would see her alive.
In Solidarity: A Letter before Striking
by Ben DeVries | Feb 18, 2018 | Illinois
I do not want to strike. No one wants a strike. But if it comes to it, Jes and I will be on the picket line February 26, bright and early, because at that point we will have no other choice.
My Dog, My Dawg: A Study in Contrasts
by Tony Ditta | Feb 17, 2018 | Placeless
He’s deathly afraid of my guitar because one time—one time—he knocked it over and the sound it made upon landing scared the bejesus out of him.
Translating Karneval
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2018 | Cologne
I’ve only lived through three Karnevals, so I’d like to leave you with three thoughts on a holiday I’ve come to know, but not yet understand.
Let’s Talk About Gas Stations
by Cassie Westrate | Feb 15, 2018 | Placeless
Gas stations are where lives intersect, ever so briefly, before going back out into the world.
13 Reasons Why…You Should Watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
by Catherine Kramer | Feb 13, 2018 | Placeless
If you think this isn’t for you based on the off-putting title, get thee to a Netflix subscription—this show is definitely for you.
Elementary
by Abby Zwart | Feb 12, 2018 | Placeless
“Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire;
Still waters run deep, my dear, there’s never smoke without fire.”
Look Up
by Elaine Schnabel | Feb 11, 2018 | Placeless
For a moment, I got lost in space and time. Sunday morning church was above me, and I had to look for the bookshelves and study carrels to remember that a library was around me.
The Church at Rocamadour
by Jenna Griffin | Feb 10, 2018 | France
She is
Smoke-tinted,
Wood and silver,
Vessel of the divine
And of acceptance
You, Me, and a Nepalese Woman Living in India
by Bart Tocci | Feb 9, 2018 | Placeless
A weird thing: when women donate their eggs, we say that their eggs are harvested. Is there a farming term more farming than harvest? No. No there is not.
Waiting
by Paul Menn | Feb 8, 2018 | Placeless
The professor is droning on and on, and I am waiting with adrenaline, caffeine, and the brutal lyrics of Peter Dolving coursing through my veins.
“Is it a Video?”
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Feb 7, 2018 | Placeless
I have been so in love that all the light around me seemed white-hot. I have spent days where I only remember the smell of sunlight and skin. I have said goodbye at train stations in Europe. I have been told to not look back.
Mayonnaise: A Review
by Josh deLacy | Feb 6, 2018 | Washington
Four tablespoons, give or take, of pure, undiluted mayonnaise.
After Ezra Jack Keats and The Snowy Day
by India Daniels | Feb 5, 2018 | Chicago
The call for diversity in children’s literature is based on the idea of windows and mirrors.
