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      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
      • 1.4 Noise and Silence
      • 1.5 Bodies
      • 1.6 Transportation
      • 1.7 Waterways
      • 1.8 My Economy
      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
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    • 2.3 Shops & Stores
    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
    • 2.5 Sabbath
    • 2.6 Local Government
    • 2.7 Solastalgia
    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

Katie Karnehm-Esh

Katie Karnehm-Esh is Associate Professor of Writing and English at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She graduated from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and an emphasis in creative nonfiction and poetry. She is working on a memoir of living and studying abroad in Europe. When she’s not writing essays or traveling, she’s walking her dogs and teaching yoga.

How the light gets in
EssayJanuary 4, 2017

How the light gets in

By Katie Karnehm-Esh

I. I drive south from Fort Wayne—Vera Bradley, Fried chicken, Huggy Bear Motel, Pilot Gas—while the radio stations fade, one by one, into sermons…

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Holy Week in Uganda
EssayJuly 27, 2016

Holy Week in Uganda

By Katie Karnehm-Esh

Sunrises in Uganda happen suddenly. On the equator, dawn is dark, turning pink at the eastern corners at the sky at 6:00, 6:30. Then…

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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 …

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