catapult magazine

Items tagged transition

• The old college try

  Graduating from college and entering "the real world" can shake up an individual's lifestyle and values. Here's some balanced advice on surviving and thriving in transition.

• On packing boxes and planting roots

  Yet another move prompts consideration of the pros and cons of leaving.

• Dragging my heels

  Another transition prompts reflection on the fleeting experience of good things.

• Gone south

  A Midwesterner in Tennessee reflects on alienation and belonging.

• Squeezing the grape, acidic urine and the intentional fallacy

  On how vocabulary fosters a sense of community.

• The sound of transition

  A move to Pennsylvania from Michigan inspires a meaningful mix CD.

• Living like Grandma

  Learning to be at peace in all circumstances from a matriarch's example.

• A playful revolution

  Rediscovering play as a young adult in a new city.

• Answers come like drizzled honey

  Reflecting on the quality of connections as a single twenty-something grieving a loss.

• The thirty-year itch

  On the tangle of questions and desires at the point of church transition.

• Ten things I experienced in 2012

  Reflections on changing, adapting and continuing forward.

• Living the homemade life

  How a forced transition became a welcome change.

• A car story

  Around the world 11 times in a 2000 Volkswagen Jetta TDI.

• Into the desert

  Searching for transformation in Joshua Tree National Park.

• Tradition transitions

  Why Thanksgiving never will be -- and never has been -- the same.