What does it look like to live at the crossroads?
For Chris Hardie, it’s east central Indiana: where urban meets rural, modern meets traditional, and growth meets contraction. It’s also where technology meets politics, journalism meets community building, and the personal meets the political.
A software developer turned journalist, and now the publisher and owner of a hyperlocal print and online newspaper, Hardie started a weekly column to have the conversation with readers he’d been missing. At the Crossroads collects a year of those columns: authentic insights, good questions, and plenty of humor about the baffling world we find ourselves in.
You’ll find stories of parenting mishaps, travel adventures, life as a newspaper publisher, and the nuts and bolts of small-town Midwestern living.
Underneath the stories are the choices we’re all making: individualism or community, techno-optimism or confronting the digital divide, fear or hope, the artificial or the authentic.
Each column reads in a few minutes and stands on its own. Come for a laugh. Stay for the questions.
Buy At the Crossroads: Collected Essays, Vol. 1