Our popular Ask the Abbot feature garners lots of questions and occasionally prompts its own answers, too, with rich material that augments the fictional Abbot’s own responses. In last month’s @St. Norbert, Jerome Moscinski ’63 asked the Abbot why St.…
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As Assigned
This artefact from the history of a young writer is just one of many delightful surprises that has shown up in our office since I first connected with Breanna Mekuly ’09 earlier this summer. Breanna’s name first cropped up when I asked the…
Life Is a Lot Like Editing
With every Commencement, we bid farewell to our senior intern. We are going to miss Amy Mrotek ’16! We’re going to miss her skills, her creativity, her ever-willing presence in the office. Most of all, though, we will miss her wonderful…
Big Picture Thinking
It’s no small thing … . A year ago, we got a little bit bigger. After 15 years as a 32-pager, the magazine was able to add four pages to its count. We wanted to use this additional space to respond to the two things readers tell…
A Few Choice Words …
… from our new issue: lepidopterous Love this one! We have a bit of fun with the “in” phrases we use to set up our list of online exclusives, and “In matters lepidopterous” was the brilliant touch from Jill that introduced a video about the Moth…
Lightness of Being
I spend almost all of my time with the interns’ prose reining them in; emphasizing the spare and economic techniques of straight newswriting; eliminating the flowery, ruling out the editorial voice. So it’s a beautiful thing, in the week’s student newspaper, to…
Out of the Strong Comes Forth Sweetness
I don’t know that I’ve encountered a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize before today, and I wouldn’t have expected it to be about the food, in any case. But Victor Ochen has been on campus, and here’s what Corey posted on…
A Slow Day at the Office
Today I’m practicing slow journalism. Today I said yes to an opportunity to which common sense dictated I say no. I drove south instead of north. I skipped the office, I went well off-campus; out on a limb, on the lam…
Family Reading
Tongue-in-cheek text from younger son: “Ugh: I have to read some ‘Being Norbertine’ article by one ‘Allen, S.’ for my first graduate course.” Which is how we in the office discovered that the cover story of our Summer 2014 issue is now…
Good to Go
Somehow we were ready to send the spring issue to print, and there were still two hours in hand before we were due to deliver the files. This never happens, by the way. We’re a busy office, and we’re never…
