other articles in this issue

• Feature
  Top ten New Year’s predictions

  by Bill Boerman-Cornell

• Editorial
  Trying softer

  by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

• Article
  Top ten new experiences of 2007, my 49th year

  by Katie Houston

• Article
  My ten favorite things

  by Reverend Karen Fitz La Barge

• Article
  Top ten signs you’re a backpacker

  by Kaitlyn Barker

• Article
  Ten dichotomies I don’t fit into

  by Brett Alan Dewing

• Article
  Ten things to do before I die

  by Reverend Lawrence W. Farris

• Article
  Ten epiphanies for year 2008

  by Ellyn Wilkoff

• Article
  Top ten surprises on my 13-year-old daughter’s iPod

  by Katie Houston

• Film Review
  Sentimental filth

  by Raymond Blanton

• Review
  Grant’s recommendations 1.11.08

  by Grant Elgersma

• Book Review
  Move over, Sweet Valley High

  by Kate Bowman Johnston