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Internal plurality

Dane Sherman | Monday, May 1, 2023

Not one, two or three, but five melatonin tablets slid down my throat a few minutes before I hopped on the flight. I was going to pass out one way or the other.  Before I even got on the airplane, my friend Isaac told me, “Don’t speak to anyone.” When you fly from San Francisco

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Asymptotes of success

Dane Sherman | Wednesday, April 12, 2023

He sat in a full suit on the number 4 train lost in the tiny world of emails. His hair was perfectly quaffed. His energy radiated confidence. As soon as I sat next to him, I realized a similarity we had: WE HAD THE SAME COSTCO GLASSES! I cracked a joke about our glasses matching

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Would you choose it again?

Dane Sherman | Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Nervous herds of students whisked by us. My friend and I sat in gorgeous leather seats staring at the illustrious carpeting, ceilings and huge windows of the ballroom. Both of us leaned on a small cocktail table with a basic white sign flashing the words “LGBTQ/PrismND.”   Some of the admitted students pretended not to see

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Sister Sally Sherman

Dane Sherman | Wednesday, March 8, 2023

All I could see was the white popcorn ceiling and a bright fluorescent light in the corner of the screen. We were on FaceTime and although I couldn’t really see her face during this call, she wasn’t caked in her normal gorgeous smile and glowing personality. Pain seeped through the screen and shame lined every

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You bring heaven down to me

Dane Sherman | Friday, February 17, 2023

One of my earliest memories is gripping our kitchen’s cold, stainless steel table. It was originally a Home Depot work bench that my dads thought would look modern and hip as a dining room table. Or maybe it was just them trying to save money. My legs swung, unable to touch the ground. Their nervous

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The Puritans of Country Club Catholicism

Dane Sherman and Blake Ziegler | Monday, February 13, 2023

“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire: he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into fire” – Jonathan Edwards, 1741,

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Communion of Saints I disagree with

Dane Sherman | Friday, February 3, 2023

There is only one torture device that should be used in the 10th circle of hell: middle seats on airplanes. The cramped quarters, jiggling the person next to you to take a leak and you descend into the next circle of hell when you come back to both of the armrests taken. I was flying

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Riding the No. 2 bus

Dane Sherman | Wednesday, November 9, 2022

The No. 2 Bus is the route in Seattle that slices right through the city’s heart. Flying over the high hills of Queen Anne, winding through the tight one-way streets of the city center and crawling next to the thriving bike paths. This route is unique not only because of the diverse terrain it covers

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Country club Christianity

Dane Sherman | Wednesday, October 5, 2022

We stand on the shoulders of underdogs. Notre Dame began as a school for the poor, Irish, Catholic immigrants that were not welcome anywhere else. At every turn, we have been counted out for being “too Catholic,” in the middle of nowhere, or as “just a football school.” For the game against Berkeley, one of

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A deep hunger

Dane Sherman | Wednesday, September 21, 2022

I hopped on the Manhattan-bound “L” train at 10 a.m., late for work. I overslept and took my sweet time getting up. That’s what summer internships are for messing up, right? The car was lightly filled. Most of the people had already made it to their resting places for the day. The subways are a

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