Northern Lights: A Letter to a Friend
While we were talking, your mom shouted from upstairs that we should go outside—there were northern lights showing.
How to Take the GRE
7. Bring vocabulary cards on road trips and try to convince people that studying them will be, just, SUCH a fun game.
Lend Me Your Ears: Podcasts
For a blog written by people between the ages of twenty-three and thirty circa 2017, it’s been a while since we’ve talked about podcasts.
Communion Crusts and Tea Sandwiches
My mom’s bread pudding is tried and true comfort food: warm, spongy mush flecked with cinnamon and sprinkled with raisins.
The Gabe Gunnink Halloween Lookbook
It was a costume that screamed, “No! I don’t want to join my friends in the haunted house with a crawlspace entrance, thank you very much!”
Repurposing Gravestones
For years, I swear I knew the five stages of grief and what it felt like to come through to acceptance on the other side.
Stumping for Calvin
If nothing else then, the Illinois Regional College Fair confirmed for me what I already knew: I would make a terrible salesperson.
Harvey Weinstein and Strategic Sexual Assault
Who did he attack? Young women at the beginning of their careers—people over whom he had the most leverage and who had the least institutional recourse.
Protest and the Church
The first thing is that protest has a clear place in church tradition. The scriptures and church history testify to it.
On Conquering Fears
I am irrationally afraid of concrete horrors, like clowns and spiders and people impersonating Talking Elmo, but those veins of fear are hardly the heart of the matter.
