Running Off the Side of a Mountain
My hesitation caused the exact outcome I’d feared.
Lauren Cole (’20) graduated with a major in English and minors in French and psychology. She grew up in Grand Rapids and wants to live as she wants to die—surrounded by trees. She loves adding books to her TBR, but actually reading them is another matter.
Take Me to Church
So many artists reach for religious imagery to explain the height of their experience with a beloved.
We Are the Color of Each Light: A Review of Badhaai Do
Part of this is due to the fact that it doesn’t shy away from the pain of being part of the LGBTQ+ community in a society that is less than accepting, but it also doesn’t hesitate to show the joy that can be found in that community.
Spring Cleaning But Make It Bookmarks
Maybe I’ve had this tab open for three years? Who knows.
On Creative Droughts
It was the worst writer’s block I’ve experienced—not even like pushing a boulder up a hill but like pushing against a wall.
The Language of Flowers: A Ranking
7. Clematis — mental beauty. For when you want to compliment your beloved’s ~inner beauty~, because you’re not like other suitors. 7.5/10.
Watching Lord of the Rings for the Ninth Time
Entertain yourselves by quoting lines five seconds before the characters say them. (This only works if everyone finds it entertaining.)
BTS Brought Me Back to Instagram
Keeping in touch with people over social media fell to the wayside.
Trail Talk: Haikus from the Manistee River Trail
heads tilted back:
pinpricks of sky fire.
Fifteen Seconds of Peace
There, church bells ringing as the sun sets over Grenoble.
Revisiting the Cottage
The first thing I noticed was the erosion.
This is the Way the World Ends
The muskrats giving glimpses of their heads before diving back underwater—all that I was seeing was so very fragile.
Facing the Fog
Sometimes I think about the present moment so much that I disconnect from it
BTS and Me
I didn’t give a lot of thought to who was actually making the music I was relating to until BTS.
Go Touch Some Grass
As an adult, people give you odd looks if you’re crouched down beside a puddle or anthill.
Why I Unironically Love the CW’s Nancy Drew
When I saw that the CW had a Nancy Drew TV show that started airing in 2019, I had my reservations.
A Monstrous Appearance
It would be simpler if a person’s inherent goodness or inherent badness precipitated into their outward appearance.
Lacking a Love Language
And yet my experience of love is deep and varied, though not in a way that amatonormativity and our limited language surrounding love recognizes.
The Surreality of Living Through History
Surreality would posit that this riot is just another unbelievably strange moment in a series of unbelievably strange moments
Doing NaNoWriMo in 2020
I decide that since I was already not going to do a classic NaNo, I might as well break some other rules.
Lanthanum, Uranium, Rhenium, Nitrogen
Perhaps what was most interesting to me about chemistry was the very fact that we could study something that was too small to see.
Trader Joe’s and the Joys of Cooking
If there were a sixth love language, I believe it’d be food
A Few Reflections on Wind Through Trees
In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shug tells Celie, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
Living Deliberately
I used to think “living deliberately” meant doing crazy things, making wild memories.
