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The cats were all female for their presumed docility in the stressful endeavor of flying into space.
Arvo Pärt’s Musical Breastplate
A Deer’s Cry therefore asks us to reconsider our assumptions about divine help and protection.
Dragons Live Forever
I don’t want to be the kind of camp counselor who is raising a new generation of middle schoolers who have 786 pins on their wedding board on Pinterest.
Economics and Hatsune Miku
Oftentimes, when I think about the amount of my life that I’ve spent playing video games, I cringe.
John Lewis: My Founding Father
But what most makes John Lewis one of my founding fathers is his lifelong rootedness in love.
Landlocked
I used to finish races like that so sweaty and happy and exhilarated that I didn’t need any rum to feel like the queen of the world.
Exposed and Processed
Something like the Holga makes it impossible to forget that photos are made of light-affected chemicals on a roll of paper.
This Year According to the Notes App on my Phone
Here, lightly edited, are a year of the mundane and serious and baffling things I felt the need to save.
The One Time You’re Asked to Hurry Up in Honduras
Everyone who gets on is headed their own way—school, work, church, shopping, home—but for a brief moment, the barreling bus brings us all together.
Toll Road Home
There are several “worst parts” about driving across the country.
