I complain about my children most days. They are fabulous little human beings, but there are just so many of…
Jen Holmes CurranOctober 6, 2019
I'm in the stage of life when watching movies is difficult. It's not just finding a block of uninterrupted time…
Jason LiefOctober 4, 2019
The table came with the house, and like the house, it was old, a little tired, and rather nondescript. With…
Laura de JongOctober 3, 2019
As regular readers of my Twelve contributions know, I read to my daughters every night from the diaries I kept…
Heidi S. De JongeOctober 2, 2019
We are in quite a moment in the United States (though the world is looking on curiously and even anxiously). …
Scott HoezeeOctober 1, 2019
After World War II, colleges were full of GIs securing the benefits of the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (the “GI…
Rebecca KoerselmanSeptember 30, 2019
Author’s note: this is the last in a series of reflections written as letters to my mom (but you can…
Gretchen Schoon TanisSeptember 29, 2019
“It’s disturbing to recognize that in the Noah story, God does the same sort of thing that the Babylonian gods…
Debra RienstraSeptember 28, 2019
Out in the middle of nowhere, the old white frame building is all that remains of a heart-felt dream that,…
James C. SchaapSeptember 27, 2019
