Pokémon, Ranked
What culture doesn’t have a myth of a turtle who keeps the world, or at least a small forest, on its back.
Headshot
Much as I enjoy teaching novels and short stories, video games do something special when played with a group.
Pros and Cons
That’s a heavy con for Madison (Pros: Government job benefits, Roommate Night with my best friends, a church that has become home, cheese).
Ne Carpamus Diem
Giving up the control, allowing our grasping hands to slacken is scary. We don’t know what to do if we do nothing. Yet life goes on.
Read Your Food: Beyond Recipes
With every bite of these foods, we eat our history, and we inherit the ingenuity of immigrants, slaves, presidents, and chili queens who crafted the foods we love today.
The World Got Bigger
So I let go, and I felt immediately liberated from the burden of trying and failing to imagine a loving God in the day-to-day.
Fear Factor
I mean honestly, I cried the entire eight-hour car ride to college (shout out to my parents who kept driving).
Musicprayer
That’s a lot of lead up, I know. But, like, welcome to my head I guess.
Life After the Second Year
What if we chose to invest like we’ll be here for ten years or more, and that investment became a reality?
The Realest Fake World
They set out to design a game that recognized the freedom and thrill that made skateboarding unique.
