My Years in Grand Rapids, Ranked
Don’t accept a job with the first company that offers you a position out of college, especially if the head of the eight-person company reminds you of a shady televangelist.
Pizza and Other Unexpected Delights
With a soundless slap, the pizza was on my windshield.
Frosty Boy and the Cemetery
It sounds like a ska band, but it was really just a dang good time.
On Christina Koch
As of March 2023, seventy-two women have flown in space.
But no woman has gone on a moon mission before.
Maybe I Just Can’t Resist Big Shiny Objects
Perhaps the Meijer family is more savvy than I give them credit for.
The Art of Light and Shadows
What makes their art dance as a pair?
Lessons and Carrels
If they checked IDs, I’d never get in. But they don’t, and I wrote my paper, feeling like maybe I understood this place better than its students.
Grand Rapids in Five Songs
Some people love it. Others feel like Grand Rapids is an inescapable vortex of Dutch bingo. Remi Wolf just helps with some comedic relief.
City Slicker Definition & Meaning
Life there doesn’t confuse me, but it’s no longer what I’m accustomed to. I’ve become a real city slicker.
Who, But Also Where
There’s always someone to wave to.
