by Benjamin Percy I remember wonder. There was a time when a Stephen King novel could make me lie awake in the dark, fearing the branch tapping at the window or the […]
A Man’s Life
by Ryan Horner ’15 My stepfather Dean’s last steps were the hundred feet he walked at my sister’s wedding in March, two months before his death, as he guided her down the […]
by Will Yank ’19 I was on top of the world. As I walked off the plane to begin my internship in Washington, DC, last summer, I got those butterflies you get […]
About It The boy can’t look at himself in the barber’s mirror, but there he is, and his face says he’s all wrong. Oh for someone to say otherwise, but the barber […]
Accepting ABC News Anchor Frank Reynolds’ invite to Washington gave a professor a behind-the-scenes look at TV journalism, a lesson in the strength of the Wabash alumni network, and a shadowy 15 […]
“You have a daughter. She’s beautiful. When can you come pick her up?” by Greg Castanias ’87 We arrived at adoption like most couples do—after trying to have children without assistance, and […]
When the day came for me to board the airplane for the United States, I was truly excited. I was also totally unprepared. by Ken Sun ’88 It is not very fashionable […]
by Matthew Vollmer I once knew an old mountain man, a man who had never married, never had a girlfriend, never so much as kissed or danced with or held hands with […]
I believe it to be one of the first and foremost duties as a father: to give my children, as best I can, this place. by Joe Wilkins WIND IN THE LIMBS […]
I knew my son would watch the way I approach women and food and the lawn and language. I worried about what he might learn. by Jeremy Jones Last year, amid what […]
by Dan Wakefield Going from Indianapolis to college at Columbia was a shock to all my senses, and taste was one of the first to be altered. My new fellow students led me […]
Read Scott Russell Sanders’ A Man’s Life essay, The Uses of Muscle.
