Perec in Purmerend
The stream seems like something that could have only begun as a joke, but in
fact, it didn’t. The webcam which streams a roundabout in the sleepy suburban
town of Purmerend in
A Half-hearted Pilgrim
I watched the movie first. Then I went online, wanting to know more about this
woman who changed her last name into a verb; who walked 1100 miles from southern
California to the
The Bible Quiz Subculture
When my parents moved back to the States after living overseas as missionaries,
they made a deliberate decision to put my sisters and me in public schools. As
full-time Christian workers who came
The Great Glass Sea
I found you in a basket of mallow skating across the great glass sea. You were
Moses. You were any story. You grew to love stories and so I wrote. With each
sentence
Life at Keleti Station
Andrew McCall Smith notes,
> “Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes
are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps
we make of ourselves,