Christianity, Ghosts, and the Unknown
They whispered, “Did you feel that too?”
Tiffany Kajiwara graduated from Calvin in 2022 with majors in literature and writing. Now, she continues to live in Grand Rapids and works at Baker Academic Publishing as a marketing assistant. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting, thrifting, and psychoanalyzing cartoon characters.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Oct 16, 2024 | 1 comment
They whispered, “Did you feel that too?”
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Sep 16, 2024 | 1 comment
This was the first time my two-week notice meant anything significant.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Aug 16, 2024 | 0 comments
Even after you’re determined to start loving yourself, the world will still echo the same questions and judgements you’ve been using to crush yourself.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Jul 16, 2024 | 1 comment
You’ll realize that you don’t want someone who won’t cry with you when you’re mourning.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Jun 16, 2024 | 1 comment
My loneliness is an echo from a silent sound, a shadow with an invisible caster.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | May 16, 2024 | 1 comment
If we can romanticize diapers and spit up and sleep deprivation, let’s romanticize the pains of single people too.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Apr 16, 2024 | 1 comment
I tried to make dresses one summer, but I mostly massacred innocent bed sheets
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Mar 16, 2024 | 1 comment
Someone—or something—keeps turning on the lights.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Feb 16, 2024 | 2 comments
I decided to see it as you inviting me into your life, asking me to pay witness to the rhythms of your life.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Jan 16, 2024 | 0 comments
It feels like the team working on this musical doesn’t believe anyone wants to go to a musical
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Dec 16, 2023 | 0 comments
I had to hype myself up to buy a pack of three dollar udon at the grocery store—I certainly can’t afford the forty dollar Roblox gift cards.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Nov 16, 2023 | 0 comments
I attend a work conference to sell books the week before Thanksgiving. This year, the plan was that I was going to take the Amtrak down to my parents’ place in Chicago, and I would fly to San Antonio the next day. Since the train leaves at 6:00 a.m., I knew it was...by Tiffany Kajiwara | Oct 16, 2023 | 2 comments
I hope you’re constantly getting images of the Eras Tour.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Sep 16, 2023 | 0 comments
As soon as I drew my first heart, Drew said, “I’m gonna draw a Goomba.”
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Aug 16, 2023 | 0 comments
There might still be a piece of my tooth there.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Jun 16, 2023 | 1 comment
Her expression tightened as she said, “At least you had a couple friends in the city.”
by Tiffany Kajiwara | May 16, 2023 | 1 comment
When everyone gathered around her and started singing “Happy Birthday” in a key far too high, she knew to blow out the candles.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Apr 16, 2023 | 1 comment
Mental calculations fly through my head, and I cannot imagine a scenario where you kiss me and don’t spill soup all over both of us.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Mar 16, 2023 | 0 comments
I’d walk along the lake and listen to the birds, thinking about how strange it was that a man-made peninsula became a spot of natural beauty amongst glass skyscrapers.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Feb 16, 2023 | 2 comments
I can’t believe that I’m unconvinced about a romance with People Magazine’s Sexist Man Alive Paul Rudd. It’s a waste, really.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Jan 16, 2023 | 2 comments
To my surprise, my first thought was, “Ha! Little does she know that gays walk among us.”
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Dec 16, 2022 | 2 comments
Idiots. They had stealth, but I had Google search.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Nov 16, 2022 | 1 comment
I texted my friend with the encyclopedic podcast knowledge to ask why she liked true crime. Instead, she told me why she quit.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Oct 16, 2022 | 0 comments
Astronomy is thought of as the future or the cutting edge, but it studies slow processes and ancient objects.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Sep 16, 2022 | 1 comment
I laugh with them over Codenames and Fluxx, then ask if I can join them for swing dancing the next week.
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Aug 16, 2022 | 2 comments
I didn’t question if they still loved me; I questioned whether they thought I belonged in the house of God and if I would stay.