This summer, writing and reporting at my internship for the recently renamed In Part magazine (the magazine of the Brethren in Christ Church of North America), I got a lot of opportunities to conduct interviews. I loathe interviews. I hate they way my stomach knots up like an Auntie Anne’s pretzel right before I knock […]

I’m working at an office this summer, interning for a really great magazine. I’ve been here for almost three months now and, for the most part, things have been pretty fantastic. There are some mornings, of course, when the cogs of productivity grind slower than a grist mill in January. Like this morning, when I […]

Four months into the spring semester of my sophomore year at Messiah College, I woke up around 8:00 and decided to take a shower. Now, if you’re anything like me at 8:00 in the morning, you’re not exactly running at peak capacity: you’re groggy, bleary-eyed, and mumbling to no one in particular about another fifteen […]