Under the Bridge

Under The Bridge is an anthology featuring all genre and styles of writing, a collection of campus creative and intellectual work from students, faculty, staff, alumni, and student organizations at Trinity Christian College.

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Under The Bridge - vol. 1, issue 1 (2016)

Tim Hendrickson

Acknowledgements - ii / A Message from the Editorial Team - iv / A Message from the Faculty Adviser: Dr. Mary Lynn Colosimo - Retirement Reflections: Things I Will and Won’t Miss After Almost 30 Years of Teaching at Trinity Christian College - 1
Featured Student Submission: Hannah Dykstra - From Shostakovich: Allegro non Troppo - 3
Non-Fiction: Callie Bunker - Sevilla: The Quintessence of Spain - 22 / Joshua Coldagelli - “My Name is Josh…and I am Single.” Confessions of a Happily Single Small Christian College Student - 28 / A Former Student, One Who Wishes to Remain Anonymous - Advice to Trinity Students: Lessons Learned from Decades of Interesting Decisions - 30 / Mike Jones - The Power of Music in a Time of War - 32 / Ben Tocila - In the Midst of Transylvania - 35 / Ben Lashar - Breaking News: Freshman’s Discovery Forever Changes Campus - 36 / ShinHye Hwang - A Rhetorical Analysis of “Art Psychology” and The Arts in Therapy - 37 / Lexi Zambrano - Crediting the Author and Illustrator - 39 / DaEun Kang - The Witnesses to the Korean War - 41 / CESAG - The Three Rs and Responsible Campus Stewardship - 42 / Dr. Tim Hendrickson - Finding God in Unexpected Places - 45 / Kate Meyrick - What I Wrote on a Wrought-iron Bench at the Art Institute of Chicago, October 3rd, 2015 - 46 / Kristen Speelman - Finding My Calling - 48 / Kristen Speelman - Four Senses: My Experience with Blindness Opened My Eyes - 49 / Anonymous - Feminism and Vocation 50Laura G. Van Blaricom - Gettysburg - 53 / Mary Huisenga - Salt and Light - 54 / Latifah Williams - Anxious Black Woman - 55 / Makayla Cole - Are Black Women Undesirable? - 57 / Kylla Pate - “Please Leave Me Alone.” A Theory on How Introverts can Survive in an Extrovert-Driven Discipline and Society - 59 / Sabor Latino - The Minority Experience at Trinity - 60
Poetry: Ben Lashar - Dark Poem - 61 / William Mulchrone - The Rose - 61 / Kailah Price - Searching - 62 / Kailah Price- Flight Patterns - 62 / Kailah Price - Knots - 63 / Lane Mejeur - Darkness - 63 / Kailah Price - Migraine - 64 / Lane Mejeur - Emotions - 64 / Kylla Pate - The Twenty-Second - 66 / Avery Kats - Fear - 67 / Esther Sullivan - Now I See Dimly - 68 / Crystal Linzy - Lesser Men - 68

Fiction: Mike Jones - Why I Left Nightingville - 70 / Ben Lashar - The Brothers’ Heist - 70 / Matthew TeBeest - “The Boy in the Snow,” Chapter 1 from Spellbound - 74

In Process/Faculty Research: Dr. John J. Fry, History - The Faith of Laura Ingalls Wilder - 80 / Dr. Tim Hendrickson, English - Heresy and Religious Conformity in Rider Haggard’s Adventure Novels - 81 / Dr. Michael Vander Weele, English - You’re on Sabbatical? Say What? - 82
Under The Bridge - vol. 2, issue 1 (Fall 2016)

Tim Hendrickson

Acknowledgements - 2 / A Message From the Editors - 4 / An Opening Prayer - 5

Special Section—Election 2016

Jordan Ghiglia - Equanimity: A Christian Case for Gary Johnson - 9 / Ben Lashar - Why I Support Donald Trump - 12 / Tim Hendrickson - Clinton 2016: A Vote for the Perhaps Mediocre - 16

Non-Fiction: Dr. Shaniqua Jones - Chapter One, 1 Ingalls Drive - 18 / Laura G. Van Blaricom - In and Out of Madness - 23 / Eric Los, Dr. Abbie Schrotenboer, and CESAG - Getting Acquainted with Our Local Wildlife - 24 / Hannah Bresser - Emile Pinet’s "Revel in the Moment of Now": An Explication - 25 / Joshua Coldagelli - W. E. B. Du Bois’s "My Country 'Tis of Thee": An Explication - 27 / Shinhye Hwang - George Herbert’s "Easter Wings": An Explication - 30 / Faith Lorenz - Emily Dickinson’s "Tell all the truth but tell it slant—": An Explication - 32 / Mary Huisenga - Chasing Grace - 33 / Mikayla Zuidema - Watch and Listen - 34 / Laura G. Van Blaricom - Rules for Life - 36 / Ben Lashar - How To Be a Writer - 37 / Matt Koerner - The Stormy Sea - 39

Fiction: Joy Elizabeth - The Giver, Chapter 24 - 42 / Jerrid Neal - The Giver, Chapter 24 - 45 / Jacqueline S. Krestel - The Giver, Chapter 24 - 47 / Crystal Reda - The Giver, Chapter 24 - 50 / Spencer Ellison - Jonah’s Experience - 52 / Zack Jones - In Over Your Head - 55 / Stephanie Rodriguez - I Don’t Mind Too Much - 62 / Mike Jones - A Look into the Mind of Joe Cooney - 63

Poetry: Ben Lashar - The Adored One Possesses a Backside - 65 / Kristen Speelman - The Artists’ Poem - 66 / Marissa Buhman - A Trip to Portugal - 66 / Kylla Pate - This Isn’t Sweater Weather - 67 / Deborah Fry - Artist - 67 / Deborah Fry - Lost - 68 / Bethany Dadisman - Consumed - 70 / Cassidy Buss - Poem - 71 / Kailah Price - Cracks in the Foundation - 71 / Jocelyne Candelas - Awakening - 72 / Megan Wise - The Hair Emporium - 74 / Megan Wise - A Mission for Sanity - 75 / Megan Wise - Parque De Los Principes - 75
Under The Bridge - vol. 2, issue 2 (Spring 2017)

Tim Hendrickson

Acknowledgements - ii / A Message From the Faculty Adviser iii

Special Section: The Stories Our Foods Tell

Kate Meyrick - Reworking the Dough - 1 / Emily Lemmenes - Beer Brats: How Food Brings Families Together - 2 / Hannah Keating - Keating Potatoes: A Food To Connect Us - 4 / Shinhye Hwang - Janchi Guksu: The Noodle Dish - 6 / Brittany Dole - Kugelis: Lithuanian Potato Pudding - 9 / Andrea Taylor - American Lumpia/Filipino Egg Roll - 10 / Ben Lashar - Lashar Cheesecake: Dessert for the Ages - 12

Non-Fiction: Terry Currin - Sacred Kiss - 15 / Ben Lashar - A Humble Suggestion (With Apologies to Swift) - 16 / Terry Currin - Whispering Streets 17 / Janet Chaney - and Dr. Thomas Roose - Healthy Harvests from Trinity’s Organic Garden - 19 / Laura G. Van Blaricom - My Life Before and During Trinity: Turning My Life Around and Growing in Faith - 19 /

Special Section: Passengers and Navigators, Seven Minute Dramas

Adam Krestan - Nirvana, A Play in One Scene - 23 / Ben Lashar - Make Him Laugh - 28 / Emma Darcy - Just Hitched - 34 / Bill Boerman-Cornell - Roles Reversed, Car in Park, Nowhere to Go - 41

Fiction: Kailah Price - Uncharted Territory - 46 / Matthew TeBeest- The Fire Dragon in Loquea, A Fragment of Chapter 2 - 47 / Matthew Theis - Wandering the Mysterious Universe - 51 / Kezia Stephanie - Thirteen Months - 56 / Samantha Willis - Welcome to TrollChat, Trinity’s first ever online chat room! TrinChat is open 24/7! - 61 / Noah Venhuizen - The Darkness - 66 / Ben Lashar - The Literary Court - 69

Poetry: Ranesha McGee - Day - 76 / Lacey Burie - Those Places - 77 / Kylla Pate - The Ballad (of Unrequited Love) - 77 / Mikayla Zuidema - Call it What You Will - 79 / Crystal Linzy - A Perfect Target - 81 / Makayla Cole - Dear Anyone - 84 / Makayla Cole - Dad 84 / Makayla Cole - Memories - 85 / Makayla Cole - I Want You - 86 / Makayla Cole - True Colors - 86 / Makayla Cole - Dear no one - 86
Under The Bridge - vol. 3, issue 1 (Fall 2017)

Tim Hendrickson

Acknowledgements ii
Special Section: The Stories Our Foods Tell, Part II
Abby Wiegers - Grandma Z’s Brownies - 1 / Alyssa Mulligan - Christmas Cookies - 3 / Caleb DeWeerd - The DeWeerd Shrimp Boil: Uniting a Family One Tote at a Time - 5 / Emily Homman - We Made Them - 7
Special Section: 24 Hour Theatre
Ben Lashar - Hardboiled - 9
Adam Krestan - 32nd and Elizabeth - 19
Stephanie Rodriguez - Perfect First Draft - 25
Non-Fiction: Lydia Pelzer - Grace Bible Church Background - 35 / Lydia Pelzer - The Polish and British: Allies or Not? - 35 / Dr. Thomas R. Roose & Dr. Abbie C. Schrotenboer - Climate Disruption, aka, Climate Change - Awareness and Call to Action - 43 / Ben Lashar - Poe’s Anti-Epic - 44 / Chloe McRobbie - Album Review--“The Bends” (Radiohead, 1995) - 46 / Chloe McRobbie - An All-Consuming Fire - 48 / Chloe McRobbie - My Plea for History - 49 / Bailie Fredlock - My Internal Struggle with the Idea of Home - 49 / Terry Currin - Waiting to Hear from God - 51
Fiction: Ben Lashar - The World’s End - 53 / Samantha Willis - Welcome to TrinChat, Trinity’s first ever online chat room! TrinChat is open 24/7! - 54 / Kailah Price - “Results Pending”: A Short Story on the Reality of Suicide - 58 / Chloe McRobbie - Hidden Diamonds - 60

Visual Art: Abigail Smith - Red Piece - 62 / Pierce Cruz - A Series of Untitled Works - 63 / Jocelyne Candelas - Killing Me Softly - 65 / Andrea Taylor - Taste of Home - 65
Andrea Taylor - Haunted - 66
Poetry: Dr. Dennis Connelly - Anew - 67 / Dr. Dennis Connelly - I Looked at You - 68 / Kailah Price - Untitled - 69 / Crystal Linzy - Morning - 70 / Samantha Willis - Life, Love, Death, and Birth - 70 / Patricia High - Stuck Between Two Worlds - 71 / Shaelyn Postmus, Nahara Escalante, Lynnae Ilbrink, Julia Kasprzak, Sydnie Tiemens, and Tricia Sullivan - Speak - 71 / Jocelyne Candelas - Ode to “Ola” - 73 / Bethany Dadisman - Natural Disaster - 74 / Bethany Dadisman - I’m Not an Architect - 74 / Bethany Dadisman - Fight Back - 75
Under The Bridge - vol. 3, issue 2 (Spring 2018)

Tim Hendrickson

Acknowledgements - 4

Special Section:Chapel Talks

Cathy Mayer - Be Still - 10 / Roberto Rosario - MLK Day Speech - 13

Special Section: The Stories Our Food Tell, Part III Aubrey Weedman - A Safe Haven in The Land of Kale and Juice Cleanses - 17 / Colin Stravers - Pizza Bread: A Twist on an Old Classic - 19 / Allyson Kranstz - Tradition is More Than Just for Family - 20

Nonfiction: Bethany Capp - Beauty in Death - 23 / Abby Wiegers - A Child’s Perspective - 25 / Ben Lashar - Batman’s Many Masks - 26 / Emily Homman - SCC Sustainability and Conservation Club - 27 / Colin Stravers - Two Young Women - 28 / Lydia Pelzer - Henry IV: Emperor - 30 / McAudry Wilson Tinnie - The First Liberian Civil War - 35 / Jessica Pilota - The Prevalence of Thin Models in American Advertisements Contributes to Disordered Eating in Young Women - 38 / Ben Lashar - Villainous Conflict in Picture Books - 42 / Lydia Pelzer - Dorothea Dix: Mental Health Reformer - 44 / Colin Stravers - A Better Workplace and A Better Life - 48 / Isaac Lopez and Ben Lashar - In Mid-February - 50

Special Section: 24 Hour Theater, Part II

Ethan Holmes - A Funeral - 53 / Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell - Two Tables, Backlit - 59

Fiction: Noah Venhuizen - Violet - 63 / Matthew Theis - What’s Really Out There - 66

Poetry: Elique Winfield - Worthy of More - 73 / Dr. Dennis Connelly - I Pushed You Today - 73 / Kailah Price - Untitled - 74 / Nolani Schnabel - The Entryway - 75 / Dr. Dennis Connelly - I Looked at You - 76 / Dr. Dennis Connelly - Must Be A Cop - 77 / Dr. Dennis Connelly - Anew - 79 / Lacy Burie - Those Places - 80 / Makayla Cole - The Beginning - 81 / Makayla Cole - Polaroids - 82 / Makayla Cole - Sitting All Alone - 83 / Dr. Mark Jones - Summer Horn - 84 / ShinHye Hwang and Jihyeon Lim - I Am Asking You - 85 / Mengyuan Li - A Collection of Visual Poems - 86

Visual Art: Isaac Lopez - Picture of a Homeless Man - 87 / John Michael Jones - Island - 87 / Pierce Cruz - A Semester in Beginning Photography - 88 / John Michael Jones - Cubist Chaos - 89 / John Michael Jones - Façade! - 90
Under The Bridge - vol. 4, issue 1 (Spring 2019)

Tim Hendrickson

1 - Dr. Clay Carson - Convocation, 2018:

Our Shared Calling Special Section: 24 Hour Theatre

5 - James Beyer - Lucky Stars / 11 - Dr. Mark Peters - Group Work / 17 - Leah Taylor - The Old Man Who Never Slept

Poetry: 23 - Marissa Buhman - The Tangled Road of Art (Heart) / 24 - Alexis De Vries - November 15th / 25 - Alexis De Vries - Let’s Be Mermaids / 26 - Professor Christine Scholma - Stripped Down / 27 - Cassidy Buss - Fly on the Wall / 28 - Cassidy Buss - Fear of Change / 30 - Matt Theis - Think / 32 - Matt Theis - We’re Suffocating Ourselves / 34 - Breanna Sol - Walk into ADHD / 35 - Cassie Cline - Dad / 37 - Jerry Keys, Rachel Lunn, and Colleen Murphy - Beauty and the Beast / 40 - Gail Walter, Valerie Hoekstra, Katlyn Demas, and Debbie Tocila - Loss and Companionship / 41 - Grace Coutts, Abigail Lammers, Rose Eitel, and Ava Gomez - We Used to Be Safe

Non-Fiction: 43 - Michaela Kohlmeier - The Triune God’s Presence in Ethnic and Cultural Diversity / 51 - Matt Theis - A Biography of Zachary Kaiser / 55 - Dr. Deb Majewski - The Heart of a Troll / 57 - Nicole Belcher - An Appreciated Warmth / 61 - Catherine Van Lonkhuyzen - Homemade: Bonding Over Dutch Banket / 67 - Asja Goston - Greens: The Goston’s Family Recipe / 71 - Melanie Wolf - A Non-traditional Thanksgiving / 75 - Mikaela Kiel - Words Will Always Hurt / 77 - Mike Jones - Nature is Awesome: Why We Cannot Live Without It / 81 - Professor Kathryn Stefocesag, Trinity Nursing Students, and the Trinity Eco-Club Form Important Partnerships with Local Community Organizations / 83 - Catherine Hartwell - Dining Services and cesag: Working Together To Promote Recycling

Fiction: 85 - Matt Theis - What’s Really Out There: Doctor Harva’s Story / 91 Noah Venhuizen - Camp Evergreen / 101 - Noah Venhuizen - The Hitchhikers / 111 - Emma Darcy - Loss / 113 - Emma Darcy - 3D Magazine
Under The Bridge - vol. 5, issue 1 (Spring 2024)

Tim Hendrickson

Essays/Short Stories: Liam Curtin - The Fox and the Reaper - 6 / Lauren Wolters - The Woods - 20 / MJ Huizinga - What it Takes - 32 / Patrick Johnson - NICU AT NIGHT - 54 / Patrick Johnson - RAIN - 55 / Mary Honey - Someone Worth Fighting For - 58

Scientific Essays: Moriah Avila - Navigating the Ethical Maze of Genetic Manipulation - 62 / Brendan Covell - Navajo Creek Macroinvertebrate Research Essay - 66

Poetry: Adriana Klein - 4 Poems (The Mourning, Outcry, Beneath the Snow, GROW IN GRACE) - 76 / Letisha Banks - It’s Moving Day - 80 / Desriana Gilbert - Poems (His, Hers, and Ours, Love & War, When is Enough Enough) - 82 / Karlyn Boens - Good Trouble (Ode to John Lewis) - 86 / Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell - Sixth Floor, Center for Advanced Medicine - 88 / Taylor Moes - What is my story? - 94 Julia Schipma - Poems (Coffee, Butterflies, Both Sides, Help Me God, Rain) - 96 / Aileen Guillermo - Poems (Todo para ellos…”Everything for them…” and Su Niña perfecta tengo que ser “Their Perfect Daugter I Have to be”) - 100 / Anonymous - My Psalm - 104

Art: Karla Rosales - Home - 18 / Karla Rosales - Spring Break - 31 / Karla Rosales - Lake Powell, Navajo Land - 74 / Christopher Miller - Exploration of Land - 57 / Christopher Miller - Beaver Falls as Seen from New Brighton - 60 / Christopher Miller - Beaver Falls as Seen from New Brighton and Exploration of Land - 61 / Christopher Miller - House Sparrow - 65 / Christopher Miller - Clay Figure - 81 / Christopher Miller - Beaver Falls in Clay - 87 / Christopher Miller - Beaver Valley - 92 / Christopher Miller - Expression in Clay - 93 / Christopher Miller - Tomatoes - 98 / Christopher Miller - Expression in Clay and Tomatoes - 99 / Christopher Miller - Self in Context - 103 / Noah Venhuizen - My Brother on a Cow - 53