The Festival Geek Recommends
My colleague Jennifer Holberg got a head start on me last November by recommending some authors who will be featured at the Calvin Festival of
My colleague Jennifer Holberg got a head start on me last November by recommending some authors who will be featured at the Calvin Festival of
I first found out about the new Broadway musical Hamilton during a car ride across Michigan last November. The family was packed in the minivan
Calvin College, where I teach, faced another brutal round of budget cuts this fall, and not surprisingly, the arts took a hard hit. I lament
Advice columnist Pious Petunia returns as a guest blogger to face her biggest challenge yet. What wisdom can Miss P offer for the horror that
In the van on the way there, I wind up sitting in the way-back with my twelve-year-old niece. She is hopelessly bored, fiddling with her
SIMI VALLEY, CA — “We have no firm explanation at this time.”
That was as much as Patricia Drake, spokesperson for the Ronald Reagan Foundation
Now that I’ve turned 50 (on August 7), I have begun to reflect tentatively on mortality and legacy and all those things that hit you
We have arrived at that late-summer turning point when we take stock of what we have or have not accomplished since Memorial Day, back when
My daughter’s wedding is today. At last, the day has arrived! As you might expect, at my house we have been thinking of nothing but
Before the terrible shooting in Charleston on June 17, there was no Wikipedia page for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Over the next 36