Emily Articulated: Ordinary miracle
By Emiy EricksonReader Columnist “If you took a very long ruler and stretched it from here to the planet Pluto, one inch of that distance would be you. The rest of the distance would...
Tagged: philosophy
BuddhAI
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff A robot named Gabi made international headlines in early May when it underwent a public initiation ceremony to become a Buddhist monk. The robot joined the Jogye Order, South Korea’s...
The pleasure of nonsense
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In old newspapers — as in from the 1880s through to the 1970s — it wasn’t uncommon to see the nonsense phrase “etaoin shrdlu” taking up a line of text...
Love enduring
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Everything in this universe grows and changes in conjunction with and response to something else, metaphorically and literally. Humans are products of their environment, and whether that means personal idiosyncrasies...
Emily Articulated: Foundation
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist My partner and I are building a house. Or rather, he (and many other skilled people) are building a house, and I’m slotting in where I can: moving dirt from...
Declaration of Independence…
From giving a rip about Trumpers By Zach HagadoneReader Staff People don’t get too many epiphanies in life, so I count myself lucky to have had a few. The first one I can remember...
The heart over Hope
By Ben OlsonReader Staff One of the saving graces of my life is owning a sailboat. I bought it with my buddy Jake Hagadone (brother to Reader Editor-in-Chief Zach Hagadone) about five years ago;...
Don’t lose sight of the game
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There was a time when sports were just about everything in my life. Every summer, my dad loaded us in the car and drove across the country and back...
Emily Articulated: I worried
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I’m not sure exactly when I became a worrier. Maybe it was dormant throughout a tumultuous childhood and brazen, chaotic 20s. My worry couldn’t have been present when I...
Panida screens Groundhog Day for $5 on Groundhog Day
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Anyone who works in local media knows the peculiar exhaustion that goes with covering the same event year after year. There are only so many ways to frame a...
