catapult magazine

Items tagged neighborhood

• Ain't nothin' noble about it

  A family finds a perfect home in a "changing" neighborhood.

• Our towns

  *cino community members respond to questions about their hometowns.

• Re-inventing the well

  Even as big boxes multiply, "neighborhood values" are becoming an important part of the national conversation.

• Garret

  Sometimes our neighbor really is the person right across the lane.

• A time to bike, a time to drive

  Helmets or seatbelts, gas or muscle?even modes of transport have created purpose.

• The neighborhood on foot

  On moving to Europe to escape the necessity of a car.

• Locks and keys

  A meditation on key chains as a barometer of local and internal culture.

• The search for hope

  Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom and Pop points in the right direction.

• Coffee community

  On the connection between feeling at home in a place and finding a good place for coffee.

• A good kind of stuck

  Unlikely community emerges on the other side of a record-breaking January snowstorm.

• The delusions of a "single-family dwelling"

  A morning in the back yard with Squirt the cat reveals the community of nature.

• Leaving the car at home

  An account of what happens when a family gets out of the car and hits the sidewalk.

• Holy drinking

  On learning by observation how to defeat death with a cold beer.

• The ABCs of fake family dining

  A family tours the alphabet by eating out.

• A good restaurant

  Memories and dreams inform criteria for what makes a restaurant good.

• Gardening lessons

  A series of columns travels through the seasons of nature and of life.

• Gardening lessons

• Don’t talk to me about...anything

  What do we do when polite conversation has become taboo?

• The good old days

  Nostalgia for the kind of community that used to be prompts questions about what we’ve really lost.

• Around town

  A bike ride prompts gratitude for the gift of community.

• Kirstin’s recommendations 11.16.07

  Musical performance art with Tim Fite and re-visiting a classic with Hitchcock’s Rear Window.

• Sinking down

  On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.

• Security for sale

  On quieting one’s own fears and keeping a house safe for two kids.

• Ten ways to make your house more hospitable

  A list about hosting guests that could double as advice for how to live one's life.

• Human pace

  Reflections on a year of traveling by bus, bike and foot.

• A cage of my own

  On finding comfort in familiarity, even in unfamiliar places.

• Imperial cohabitation

  An evaluation of the messages that limit our household vision.

• Dwelling places

  A reflection on the complicated consideration of where to live.

• To see the fissures and 
hear the rumblings

  A review of 
The BQE, a film by Sufjan Stevens.

• Ten odd and wondrous things our family has seen this year within a block of our house

  Under the influence of urban naturalism, an inner-city neighborhood can be a wonder-full place.