Rocky River Series: Basketball
byThree Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) You can still see the scar where the city removed the downtown basketball courts last summer. Nearby, in the…
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Election adaptation
byEditor’s Note: The following essay is in response to a prompt to share personal stories about the potential impact of the election of Donald…
Calculating distance
byWhen Rob and I received an invitation from Pastor Bennett to attend his church’s annual picnic, we were honored, but bummed that we couldn’t…
The Labourers
byFraser River, British Columbia, Canada (June 2016) I was out today with the camera down along one of the winding arms in the delta…
Somewhere on Monticello Road: Listening to Pamela York’s “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
byShortly after the Civil War, Dr. Joshua Ensor lost his gold-framed spectacles on Monticello Road. At the time, he was superintendent of the South…
Imitation home
byA flavor can flood us with memories of a time and place, and we are slammed to that place in the short film, Home…
Learning to live on both sides of the river
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this 2002 piece, Bill Boerman-Cornell reviews a book worth…
On privilege and plunder
byMy small community at Kalamazoo Peace House has been reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, Between the World and Me (Spiegel and Grau, 2015). Structured…
Clifton Park
byI demanded that my mother take me back to the park with three swimming pools. Summer was so much hotter then. At night fans cooled us…
Taking it on the chin
byThe first time I got socked in the jaw it came as a total surprise. At 14 years old, I was already close to…