Coffee Crimes
Flooding stores with fresh hires just before a vote count in an attempt to dilute the vote? Illegal. Dragging their feet as long as possible with unionized stores, refusing to negotiate a contract with the union? Illegal.
Ten Albums
I’d time the queue so that the lyric “can’t figure out / how I’m gonna get through the next 10 minutes” played as we arrived at the pitch.
Smells Like School Spirit
You could smell the hesitant air looking for its next class in all the wrong buildings.
A Story That Shaped My Four-Year-Old Brain
According to Boersma family lore, I had memorized the words to it before I even knew how to read.
Weird and Awkward and Wonderful
For company, I had my two siblings and other high schoolers from my church with whom I hadn’t exchanged more than a passing word for years due to my aversion to youth group. The food was delicious; the time passed like molasses.
Lessons Learned While Backpacking
Each night I picked a spot at least a hundred yards from our tent and then listened, obsessively, for the sound of mischief.
An Open Letter to My New Apartment
Okay, maybe it’s best not to dwell on your quirks quite yet—we’re not there and that’s just fine.
What Do You Represent?
At some point, some teacher or youth group leader or professor will point to Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’ circle of intellectuals to show that Christian scholarship can be more than just inside baseball.
Five Lessons I Learned From Comics
Sure, there’s a half-bird clone of Thomas Edison, but what does the half-bird clone of Thomas Edison symbolize?
Foraging for Connection
There was always another plant to look for, another mushroom species to find, and the possibilities of foraging were endless.
