Navigating family history
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2007, Chris Fuller reflects on his nautical…
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Hope and Expectation
byTholen, Zeeland, The Netherlands (2017) First a little backstory: this spring I got to revisit Tholen, Zeeland, the town in the Netherlands where my…
The stories we don’t tell
by“Don’t buy a house in Second Ward.” Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised when a pastor who was new to our community told me…
Skamani Season
bysand pipers pluck the eyes of junk shad twitching in mesh nets strewn over the quay as big blue men string poles along the…
Rocky River Series: Camp
byThree Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) On the other side of the bridge from the historic timeline mural where a lone Indian gazes longingly into…
Rocky River series: Railroad
byThree Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) Three Rivers is located near the old Sauk Trail, a pathway between Detroit and Chicago that was first forged…
Rocky River series: Beach
byThree Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) When I first moved to Three Rivers, I heard about a beach that the city had built along the…
Rocky River Series: Mural
byThree Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) In the thirteen years I’ve lived in Three Rivers, I’ve watched this mural on the Pealer Street Bridge progressively…
Patterns of migration
byShe never ceased to wonder at the incredible power of birds for adaptation. These had flown perhaps a thousand miles from the South to…
Memories of Main Street
byMy Saturday takes me round-trip. I start the morning with a volunteer shift in the downtown fair trade store my husband and I helped…