catapult magazine

Items tagged identity

• Satisfaction guaranteed

  The how and why, the true and false, and the good and bad of branding.

• Ten favorite “goodbyes”...and good buys!

  A whimsical romp through the past and into the present.

• Writing to remember

  On the loss of love letters in a technological age.

• My childhood friends

  A mom looks back on her favorite books and ahead to her own daughter's young reading years.

• Running the freshman gauntlet

  A review of the young adult novel Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar.

• Then who would I be?

  A daughter bears the marks of her parents, human and divine.

• The greatest

  Questions prompted by a collision of generations on connecting flights.

• Questions of generational difference

  What's nature, what's nurture and what's the product of a generation?

• Back to school

  What the Boomers need to re-learn about security.

• Chosen generation

  Toward a spacious redrawing of generational boundaries.

• A tale of three or four teachers

  Learning from the ancestral line about intuition vs. skill in teaching.

• Sacredness in the margins

  On the characters who teach us how to accept life around the edges of a big story.

• Insider outed

  On the secrets we all keep.

• The integration issue

  Is it possible to truly belong in a new culture?

• Starting over

  Remembering the challenges and triumphs of the teen years.

• Lessons for a season as an outsider

  Learning to cope with unemployment.

• The King is dead; long live the King

  Acknowledging the fairy tale running under and through our daily lives.

• Nevermind your helplessness blues

  Viewing the newest Fleet Foxes album through the lens of Nirvana’s generational legacy.

• Ten things I used to believe

  A challenging year shifts beliefs in some important ways.

• Teen taboos

  A report from the high school front.

• Confession is optional

  Wrestling with the self stunted by addiction.

• Let’s (not) talk about sex

  Loneliness and misperceptions in the wake of the church’s number one taboo.

• Bad shepherd

  Confessions of a natural-born leader.

• Refurbished faith

  Considering the future form of a hand-me-down dresser.

• Drinking to remember

  The community that drinks together, stays together.

• The tasting room

  Savoring the memory of unexpected hospitality.

• A chaotic simplicity

  Contemplating goals as the mother of a new baby.

• I never imagined

  Oh, the places we have been and the things we have done...

• My own time

  Giving thanks for the opportunity of commuting.

• Beautiful inefficiencies

  A reflection in words, photos and video about the possibilities of an autumn staple.