After months of searching, my fiancé (Lauren) and I recently moved into a new house. It’s in a cute neighborhood with cute neighbors and a cute yard and we love it. But something strange happened not long after we moved in. Something so strange that it won’t seem strange to…

We were sitting in a friend’s backyard (something we were envious of coming from an 800 square foot apartment with two energetic dogs) when we finally decided to take the plunge and start looking at houses. This was May 2020, a couple months into the pandemic, and we were feeling…

Brian Bockelman 10/20/10 Zachery Gall Interpretation of Literature Alien abductions and time-travel have both been described by post-modern and modern scientists using many of the same words such as “improbable,” “crazy,” and “absurd.” A lot of these same words can also be used to describe war. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter-house…

by Brian Bockelman Mark woke to a thud. He registered the noise but refused to open his eyes. If he opened his eyes, he knew he’d never get back to sleep. Sleep was a hot commodity since he moved to the ground-floor loft in the city three months ago. But…

I woke up at 5:30 the morning of Monday, February 4th to go back to the worst place in the entire world: Neosho, MO. My elusive court date had been rescheduled so many times that I was bracing for a call telling me it had been moved for what would…

The Colts hold a 4–0 all time playoff record against the Chiefs in the playoffs, but the results of their last meeting make it feel much worse than that. January 4th, 2014 was the worst day of my life. That may sound a bit dramatic, especially when you consider that…

It’s time for the NFL playoffs, which means it’s time for us to validate the countless hours we’ve spent watching football the past 17 weeks by predicting who we believe will hoist the Lombardi Trophy in February. …

What started as a fun conversation starter has slowly devolved into a case of infuriating irrationality. Get caught up on parts one and two here. It’s been fifty-four days since I last posted about my case, and a lot has happened since then. Phone calls have been made. Conversations had…