Rocky River Series: Basketball
Three 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
Editor’s Note: The following essay is in response to a prompt to share personal stories about the potential impact of the election of Donald…
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Calculating distance
When 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…
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The Labourers
Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada (June 2016) I was out today with the camera down along one of the winding arms in the delta…
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Somewhere on Monticello Road: Listening to Pamela York’s “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
Shortly after the Civil War, Dr. Joshua Ensor lost his gold-framed spectacles on Monticello Road. At the time, he was superintendent of the South…
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Imitation home
A flavor can flood us with memories of a time and place, and we are slammed to that place in the short film, Home…
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Learning to live on both sides of the river
Editor’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…
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On privilege and plunder
My small community at Kalamazoo Peace House has been reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, Between the World and Me (Spiegel and Grau, 2015). Structured…
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I 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…
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Taking it on the chin
The first time I got socked in the jaw it came as a total surprise. At 14 years old, I was already close to…
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