by Malcolm MacKenzie | Mar 14, 2024 |
It was so incredibly nourishing to meet so many new PLAers on the Denver trip over spring break, and I’m so grateful to everyone for welcoming me into their conversations and adventures. Going on my first PLA trip during the last semester of my final year here at Penn...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Feb 15, 2024 |
Oftentimes I find myself overwhelmed by the sheer incomprehensibility of probability. The universal experience of the graduating college student is a near incessant chorus of “What’s next?” in all its permutations that drone under one’s last semester. My answer these...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Jan 29, 2024
What makes a fascination morbid? Apparently, it is merely the interest in topics that could be described as morbid themselves: death, crime, decomposition. I suppose this tracks. However, I always had a different perception of the phrase. To me, a morbid fascination...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Jan 16, 2024 |
Twice actually. Both of the last two Sundays I found myself back in Pittsburgh and joined my mom at my childhood congregation. For context, I grew up Mennonite and chose to be baptized into the church at 13. The thing is, I never really believed much in God. I...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Dec 2, 2023
Concluding my semester-long tirade on single-use plastics, I would like to take this time to perhaps ease your mind. The situation is dire, we are in danger and we must demand policymakers and corporations shift towards more sustainable practices. This would, in...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Nov 4, 2023
“If every person on earth just recycled, stopped using plastic straws, and drove an electric car, 100 corporations would still produce 70% of total global emissions,” Thus says a now oft-repeated tweet from 2021, reacting to the push of personal...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Oct 21, 2023
I use a plastic water bottle maybe once every six months. And even then, I usually will reuse the same bottle another four or five times just to be sure I’ve utilized its full potential to me. Then I pull the wrapper off before throwing it in the recycling bin;...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Oct 7, 2023
Yesterday I had a panic attack in my car outside the Michaels. I have a pair of hand-knit fingerless convertible mittens, you know the ones with the mitten bit that flaps over the fingerless bit? Originally those flaps were held in place by a button. Those...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Sep 17, 2023 |
I want to start this by saying I in no way judge people who did like the movie. To be as transparent as possible, I laughed at the jokes, I cried during the big mother/ daughter montage, and I had what could be characterized as a good time in general. My displeasure...
by Malcolm MacKenzie | Sep 2, 2023
The sweltering sun driving the people into doors The brave tomato plants sitting on stoops Like it’s their turn to drink shandies and shuck corn on the concrete Toes wiggling in their shoes to leave this town It’s trembling bridges And it’s open wounds....
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