All my books on vocation* would neatly fill one shelf – if they just felt called to stay put! This small collection has almost all come my way via the reading groups sponsored by the office of faith learning and…
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Redesign Hits the Streets Today
The print issue mails today and the online magazine is already available. We hope we took care of our readers and we feel the new look does the college proud. If you like it too, we hope you share our…
Old Friend, New Friend
We’ve been talking about a redesign for the magazine for a couple of years now, and I’ve been broaching the topic whenever I run into an interested reader. I’ve sometimes been taken aback by the typical response: “Why?” But I’ve…
One Student, Three Stories …
… Good News Everywhere You Look. OK, that’s a long headline. It’s the kind of issue you’re going to run into with students like Steven Garza ’13. I first came across this senior when he gave a presentation about his McNair…
A Word From the First Year
Happy anniversary to us! A year ago today publications intern Nicole Jagielski ’12 and I launched this blog with a post called – and I believe you can see the full might of our joint creative powers at work there –…
Matters of Science
Well, we knew we’d have good news about science to share in our next issue: we just couldn’t necessarily say what that might be or when we would hear. So we prepped a cover story about the future of science education;…
A Week in Portraits
Acquired, commissioned, art directed, shot. Swapped. Mooched. A scrapbook of this past week offered in awed appreciation to Bart Colson in Zwevegem, Belgium; Mike Roemer and Corey Wilson in Green Bay; Alan King and Michael Diedrick at the Milwaukee Journal…
How to Excel in Dutch
I’ve been developing an article about a Belgian who collects Praemonstratensia – items connected to the history of our founding order. He’s sent me a carefully prepared Excel document in which he has his collection mapped item by item, abbey by…
Return to the Library
I like books; I like words; I like it when we can (rarely) commission art for the magazine; and I like Father Jim Neilson ’88, a lot! So no surprise that Winter 2008 is one of my favorite covers. The…
Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve
Could’ve written this article myself. Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office. Every word of it is truth for me. And, isn’t it great when you find out it’s not just you? (By…
