Category: Writing
Thoughts from My Mid-20s
I turned 25 last week. I’m neither thrilled nor disappointed. After 20, birthdays just sort of are. I don’t feel old at all, but I don’t feel especially young anymore either. It’s the feeling of...
The importance of a journalist’s death in forgotten Africa
Camille Lepage was only 26 when she died this week in the Central African Republic, and yet she’d done more good for suffering people than the most of the rest of us will do in...
The Fault in Our Yarns
This post was originally published at The Post Calvin, a blog I contribute to by great alumni writers from Calvin College. _________________________________________________________________ I am beyond children’s literature. I am above the YA genre. Not in a...
The writer is _________
The writer is one who writes Seems obvious, yeah? But it isn’t. Because you know people who call themselves writers who haven’t penned a word in months. Planning to write is not writing. Wanting to...
This journey is made of many steps
By the time you’re 75, your heart will have beat 2.5 billion times. It takes about 5 million steps to hike the Appalachian trail. You’ll spend over 2 million minutes in school by the time...
Everything ends?
If you woke up this morning and felt like something was different, you’re almost certainly right. Because everything ended in the night. History has ended. Reason has ended. Poverty has ended. Sex has ended. Apparently,...
5 reasons everyone should read The Onion
Most Americans with access to a computer have come across an article from The Onion at some point. It’s often funny, but it’s been particularly good of late — possibly even profound. Here are 5 reasons everyone...
Thoughts from a journalist on Jeff Bezos buying The Washington Post
You don’t have to work in journalism to care that Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, has just laid down a quarter of a billion dollars to purchase The Washington Post. A lot of journalists...
Word Counts and Other Distractions
I’ve wasted hours upon hours looking up word counts. Finally, I made a list. I want to share what I’ve found so that you won’t waste time looking yourself. Here are the numbers on highly-praised...