We begin with a backward glance to a favorite post of Christie’s about the distance between email and postcard on the spectrum of serendipitous stumblings-upon.
I make a case against the multimedia approach to long form writing. It’s spectacular but it invites superficial reading.
Cassie plans a camping trip to the idyllic Apostle Islands. Then she finds out they are crawling with bears.
Guest Jennie Dusheck writes to the Pope about revising the Church’s stance on contraception. The letter arrives at the Vatican in time for the Encyclical on climate change.
Expectant father Erik reaches out to a journalistic community of fathers to try to understand his future role. They really come through.
Image: Courtesy of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore