catapult magazine

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• Yes, I still take the daily paper

  A personal history told through the lens of newspapers.

• Why I still subscribe

  Continuing a family legacy (in certain ways) of reading the Grand Rapids Press.

• Home sale

  Head to head crypt, comes with a deed & your own lettering.

• Not dead yet

  A message from the late Robert Withrow.

• Ready for anything: Ten practices for preparation

  A post-crisis reflection on getting things in order.

• Ten things I’ve learned from playing board games

  Life lessons, including a top ten list of family board games.

• Remembering mother

  The multi-sensory memories of a mother who wore more than just clothes.

• Growing apart, together

  What we leave behind when we cross state lines.

• Michigander

  On leaving home to find home.

• The weight of history

  Looking back at small town family origins in Ohio.

• In search of mishigami

  A story about how a lake brings a daughter, her father and her grandfather together.

• Work, exercise and self-donating love

  Integrating exercise into building a closer and more vibrant community.

• The equation for education

  What have we gained and what have we lost in our progress beyond the one-room school?

• I’m becoming obsolete

  Is technology moving faster than the speed of humans?

• What did David do?

  The history of dance for a preacher’s family.

• Do you wanna dance?

  Yea, though we walk through the valley of forbidden activities...

• Hidden

  A pastor writes about having a stepson with special needs.

• Meet your meat

  The story of a family’s journey toward more conscious consumption.

• The perfect sales pitch

  On the decidedly mixed bag of direct sales.

• It does take a village

  Or how to have awesome kids and make it look like you did all the work.

• Living the homemade life

  How a forced transition became a welcome change.

• Saying “yes” to a simpler life

  How priorities can shift after having children.

• Tradition transitions

  Why Thanksgiving never will be -- and never has been -- the same.

• The stories of Christmas

  On carrying a family tradition beyond childhood.

• Logic? I’ll take football.

  Why I keep the season tickets.

• Just another year

  Marking the passing of 2013 by remembering the importance of the ordinary.

• How to quit like a scout

  Learning to trust the decisions we make in third grade.

• Sharing a bathroom with sisters

  The joys and challenges of sharing space and limited privacy.

• Tasting Thailand

  Food and home, from the southern U.S. to southeast Asia.

• Reimagining the picture

  Making art as a practice for creating a new family.