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      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
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      • 1.6 Transportation
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      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
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    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
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    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

S. Alexandra Harper

Alexandra Harper's life currently mimics that of Grévy's zebras, San Juan orcas, Monarch butterflies, and other migratory animals. In the past year she has made a large loop from Spring Arbor, Michigan to Seattle, Washington to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Millinocket, Maine where she is—at the time of writing—residing in an off-grid log cabin south of Mount Katahdin. Each year Alexandra's travels move her to new destinations and new friends, always returning her to the nostalgic southern wrist of Michigan's mitten. She is Topology Magazine’s Managing Editor.

Paris re-told
EtceteraNovember 25, 2016

Paris re-told

By S. Alexandra Harper

When you travel, how do you best get to know a city? How do you get at its heart, unearthing the stories laying dormant…

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Being at home where you don’t belong
EssayOctober 14, 2015

Being at home where you don’t belong: A spiritual necessity

By S. Alexandra Harper

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that…

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About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

Contributors

  • Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
  • mt
  • the daily asterisk
  • Marjorie Maddox
  • Alex Joyner
  • Katie Hoogendam
  • Alex Quick
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
  • Naomi Wenger
  • Bethany Beachum
  • Tom Springer
  • Brett Beasley
  • Name Withheld
  • Deborah Lewis
  • Carol Stephen
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Scott Peterson
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Lisa Witz
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • Neil E. Das
  • Gail Heffner
  • Luke Johnston
  • Alek Frost
  • Ian Randall Wilson
  • John Pierce
  • Sylvia Keesmaat
  • Chris Bullard
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • Denise Frame Harlan
  • A. Non
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Randy Smit
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Monica Sharman
  • Christine Darragh
  • David Stewart
  • Amy Nemecek
  • Joy Riggs
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Christopher Smit
  • Larry Kamphausen
  • Rick Kempa
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Julie Keefer
  • Sara Sterley
  • Amanda Hiland
  • Devon Balwit
  • Travis Poling
  • Jennifer Crow
  • Jacob Miller
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Gail Walters
  • Thomas Swann
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Matt Prater
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Lynn White
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  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Jill McDonough
  • Lindsy Wallace
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  • Donald Illich
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  • Shawndra Miller
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  • Andy Rogers
  • June Mears Driedger
  • Katie Reich
  • Michael Penny
  • Kenneth Arthur
  • Jennifer Martelli
  • Nina Bannett
  • Claire Ibarra
  • Alexa Shearer
  • Danielle Germaine
  • Nicole Carlin
  • Nathan Van Hoff
  • Lea Page
  • Heidi Fettig Parton
  • Mary Ann Honaker
  • Marylu Dykstra
  • Mike Wilson
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  • Matthew Deames
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  • Geneva Langeland
  • Elisavietta Ritchie
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  • Kate Bowman-Johnston
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  • Aaron Nell
  • Debra Dieppa
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  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
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  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • Zach Bartz
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
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  • Katie Houston
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Amie Adams
  • Jeremy Huggins
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Jacqueline Ristola
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  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Robert Stout
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  • Rob Testing

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