Archives of Think

from the editor: Fall 2025, Collect

My bookshelf is the centerpiece of my home. There it stands in my living room, and it is the deepest compliment when people pay attention to it. I love to buy books because I love to write in them, and also because the physical copies are a visual representation of the invisible: This is what […]
4 hours ago

Halfway to Somewhere: A collection of reasons I love gas stations

By Jennifer Goodman There is something about gas stations that is chaotic and strangely comforting in its own eccentric way. A beautiful liminal space, the threshold from where you were and where you are going. It can feel almost otherworldly, like time slips beneath the flicker of fluorescent lights. The glow shows everything in an […]
4 hours ago

From the Editor, Summer 2025: Failure

A couple of years ago, one of my friends asked me if I’d ever felt like I’d failed at something. At the time, I honestly couldn’t think of an example from my own life. We got interrupted and never came back to the conversation, but sometimes I still think about that moment and what I […]
3 months ago

from the editor, Spring 2025: New

When we first decided on the theme “new” for this Spring 2025 issue, I thought it would be a fun, lighthearted concept to explore. I kept thinking of images of wearing a new dress or buying a new keychain or getting a new haircut (always a gamble). But when we started putting the stories together, […]
6 months ago

A Home is Created: On moving away from my hometown

By Jasmine Jones I spent the first 24 years of my life in Missouri, specifically Southeast Missouri. I’ve never called another place home. As a child, I remember pressing my face against the car window and memorizing every turn we took to get to Grandma’s house, the grocery store, school and mall. I was afraid […]
6 months ago

New in Nature: Marsha Haskell

By Marsha Haskell During the spring of 2008, our beloved boxers Max and Mollie, affectionately referred to as “the twins,” succumbed to cancer within three weeks of each other. Through a series of events that felt like they were meant just for us over the next few months, we adopted two more boxers, Zeke and […]
6 months ago

New in Nature: Megan McClanahan

By Megan McClanahan I didn’t realize how much my grandma meant to me until I lost her. I visited her almost every single day for a few months leading up to her death. These visits made us closer, which ultimately made it harder losing her. I had never experienced grief like this before. I felt […]
6 months ago

New in Nature: Becki Yetman

By Becki Yetman My professional role as a journey guide for cancer patients has helped me realize we shouldn’t leave things unsaid. I spend time with family members who have lost their person, and the thing they struggle with most is that they didn’t say certain things. I don’t want to have those regrets. I […]
6 months ago