Grow up
Here’s another old saying that deserves a second look: “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” Is that going to get us anywhere? Here’s what…
Read More1.2 Living with the Seasons
Coffee
Seasonality is one of so many beautiful aspects of living in Nicaragua. Everyone eats according to what is in season because imported produce from…
Read MoreTwilight undressing
Twilight undressing behind the docks, our glasses twin tuning forks striking perfect pitch from an undiscovered scale, were we not drunk on cider and…
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Ten recipes to make you grateful it’s winter
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. Here, Rachel Stone offers some of her favorite recipes for…
Read MoreRest is not an option
Creation itself has something to teach us about rest. If we are attentive to the world, we will quickly see that Sabbaths are going…
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How to tell when it’s winter in a Michigan farmhouse
The years have a way of making technology lose its bluster. And so do the centuries. When our southern Michigan farmhouse was built, the…
Read MoreA new idea
A decade in Georgia had not prepared either of us for our first winter in Indiana. I am a lifelong Southerner: raised in Texas,…
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Shadows on Snow
“There’s something about shadows on snow,” she told me. So I noticed too— midnight-blue shadows of winter-stripped branches printed on midday snow. When you…
Read MoreWe have become distant
Before the advent of modern transportation and storage systems, eating locally grown food was the norm–as it still is in many parts of the…
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Indiana winter, take one
On the day it reached 13 degrees below zero, I decided to go for a walk. Our dog begged to go after weeks marooned…
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