Recovering joy: A review of Hundred Dollar Holiday by Bill McKibben
Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and…
Read MoreChrist climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and…
Read MoreEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Neil Das ponders lost connections, of both…
Read MoreI have spent most of my life choosing to live cheaply. I make things. I grow things. But my greatest skill is finding things….
Read More“Water,” they all say, one after the other around the table. “Water.” “Water.” “Water.” “Water.” The waitress turns to me with a smile, pen…
Read MoreEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Laura Menze traces the origins of a…
Read MoreAccording to Google (and who would ever argue with them…it?), thrift reached its zenith sometime just before the Great Depression and has been in…
Read MoreMa was boiling molasses in a pan. When Laura’s kettle was full of popped corn, Ma dipped some into a large pan, poured a…
Read MoreWe moved to Three Rivers, Michigan, 13 years ago during a snowy winter to live in a cottage on Pleasant Lake. The cold arrived…
Read MoreI am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of…
Read MoreUntil several years ago, almost everything I knew about farming I learned from the Little House books. The Ingalls family saga was the beloved…
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