Category Archives: Placeless
by Cotter Koopman | Aug 2, 2018
She waddles so slowly and aimlessly on evening walks that it feels like you’re tricking her into moving forward. I swear her body’s just gotten doughier and wider while her head has stayed the same size.
by Michael Messina | Jul 31, 2018
I like to term myself “religious but not spiritual.” I enjoy the trappings and rituals of church: the hymns, taking communion, post-service cookies (especially the cookies).
by Juliana Ludema | Jul 30, 2018
Which poison: a lifetime spent seeing flashy landmarks, never staying put, or a lifetime getting lost in one place?
by Matt Coldagelli | Jul 28, 2018
Not only did this miscreant have the gall to stop far too distant from the proper spot, he had the utter audacity to hesitate and linger when the blessed green light at last showered itself onto us lowly plebeians.
by Jack Van Allsburg | Jul 25, 2018
Her voice was not strong. But it was powerful in softness, clear in tone. After dozens of services hearing her struggle with melody, she sang in perfect harmony.
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Jul 24, 2018
Simply begin at Blog Post #1, in which I make a rudimentary, over-simplified attempt at the “can’t we all just get along?” argument that would become a recurring theme in my work over the years.
by Gabe Gunnink | Jul 20, 2018
Now that my grandma has died, though, I feel almost embarrassed when people comfort me. I find myself dodging and deflecting each earnest, brow-furrowed condolence with chipper sound bytes: “It was a mercy at this point.” “It was a long time coming.” “I actually had a great time with my family. It was so fun to see my cousins from out of town!” I refuse to play into the cliché.
by Mary Margaret Healy | Jul 19, 2018
The fullness of the characters’ lives and the variety of their responses to such ruthless adversity forced me to think of the victims of history as more than what their oppressors made them.
by Ben DeVries | Jul 18, 2018
For a long time, my reading habits resembled a Michael Pollan polemic, if Michael Pollan had been trying to cure the Western diet with genre fiction instead of carrots: Read fantasy. Not much else. Mostly Tolkien.
by Tony Ditta | Jul 17, 2018
A while ago my friend Ryan won three games of Club Keno in a row.
