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If I were to compile a highlight reel of Caitlin Gent’s 2018, one of my Top Ten Most Important But Definitely Not Fun Moments would have to be…
Caitlin Gent (’15) graduated with a writing major. She lives in Milwaukee and works in fundraising and development. When she’s not working, Caitlin is usually walking with a friend or singing in the kitchen. She likes to wax poetic about Wisconsin to anyone who will listen.
by Caitlin Gent | Jan 4, 2019 | 0 comments
If I were to compile a highlight reel of Caitlin Gent’s 2018, one of my Top Ten Most Important But Definitely Not Fun Moments would have to be…
by Caitlin Gent | Dec 4, 2018 | 0 comments
In other words, despite my litany of previous posts to the contrary, Advent may yet find me sneaking into back-row pews and singing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”
by Caitlin Gent | Nov 4, 2018 | 0 comments
Well, we both know how that worked out in the end, and suffice it to say that both of us know that I am never going back, except for with my family on Christmas and Easter. Apostate as I may be, I am not a bad daughter.
by Caitlin Gent | Oct 4, 2018 | 0 comments
“I feel like I’m going to listen to this and it’s just going to be a bunch of my disgusting chewing noises.”
by Caitlin Gent | Sep 4, 2018 | 0 comments
Get your laughs in, Midwesterners, but for eight-year-old Caitlin, Texas was paradise.
by Caitlin Gent | Jul 4, 2018 | 0 comments
I’ve caught a bit of wedding fever. I talk a good game about not getting caught up in that sort of thing, but truthfully, that is a hot load of shit. I frickin’ love weddings.
by Caitlin Gent | Jun 4, 2018 | 0 comments
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hope for an afterlife like that—one where everything is shiny and my partner and I look like we’re thirty for the rest of our lives.
by Caitlin Gent | May 4, 2018 | 0 comments
Dirty Computer is more than a sixty-minute summer sex jam: it’s a celebration, a “fuck you,” and a challenge.
by Caitlin Gent | Apr 4, 2018 | 0 comments
I see you, O Downcast Man, sitting in the passenger’s seat. Chances are, you’re wondering how you got here.
by Caitlin Gent | Mar 4, 2018 | 0 comments
Jesse will be your second Tinder date, and your last.
by Caitlin Gent | Feb 4, 2018 | 0 comments
Grace and peace to you from me, just me. I don’t feel comfortable dragging Jesus into my well-wishing just yet.
by Caitlin Gent | Jan 4, 2018 | 0 comments
I had all but given up on existing in a sweet-smelling world for the foreseeable future, but then, I remembered something miraculous.
by Caitlin Gent | Dec 4, 2017 | 0 comments
“Oh! Like ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,’ except with bits of conversation. Without, like, any sort of context or link in between?”
by Caitlin Gent | Nov 4, 2017 | 0 comments
The right idea about me is that I am a confident, empowered female person who rejoices in her sexuality.
by Caitlin Gent | Oct 4, 2017 | 0 comments
My hands are social. They will say “I love you” before my mouth is ready.
by Caitlin Gent | Sep 4, 2017 | 0 comments
Three days later, an industrious little nibbler gets into my bag of white cheddar popcorn. We stash our remaining food in Rubbermaids, bleach everything, and riddle our kitchen with even more mousetraps.
by Caitlin Gent | Aug 4, 2017 | 0 comments
Milwaukee will always have my heart, but Grand Rapids tugs at it this morning, hard.
by Caitlin Gent | Jun 30, 2017 | 0 comments
Dear M,
I hope you are enjoying life in Oregon. I am trying very hard not to miss you. Sometimes, it works.
by Caitlin Gent | Jun 29, 2015 | 2 comments
I am guilty of letting my care and attention wander with the public eye. I am easily distracted by sensationalist headlines about the latest political debacle. But as Christians, we must struggle against this attention deficit.