Category: Conversation
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There's No Place Like A New Home
It’s a muggy night. Not so muggy that it rivals the humidity of a night in Jamaica, but a Michigan-muggy. On nights such as this, the air sits uncomfortably on my skin. The doors and windows are shut for the evening and the sticky feeling that settles throughout the house cannot be canceled by a slowly turning…
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Island Living
I leave for Jamaica tomorrow morning. Negril. And of course they issue a travel advisory this week in response to violent attacks on the government. Perfect. As it turns out, the chaos is taking place on the other side of the country, so I’m crossing my fingers and praying I’ll be fine. In truth, I’m…
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Find some crawfish in a lake. Then eat them.
After what seemed like a few dull days and hard-faced facts about the reality of this summer and my distance from Grand Rapids, I feel like I’m getting back into the swing of things. I went out to Royal Oak on Wednesday with some friends and family to see a family friend perform in Terrie Lea…
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The Power of Words. The Art of Class.
I honestly don’t know why I don’t read more often. I loved reading when I was a child. My library card was a prized possession of mine growing up. I got a thrill from using the self-checkout where I could slide the spine of the book across the block all by myself. I would gather…
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Rainy Day Blues
It’s a rainy day. Cold. The kind of dreary day that settles down in lonely bones and leaves a person longing for a warm embrace and kind word. A day that leads you to letters of a past love and compels you to read, even though reading the forgotten words flips your stomach as a rollercoaster would, were…
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And now I'm 23.
Yesterday, I got older – just as I am growing older now – but it was marked with a celebration of sorts. I awoke to a dirty chai latte in bed, hand delivered by my beautiful mother. She planned a day for me that included a massage, a visit to a penny candy shop, lunch…
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Teach a man to fish…
Last night I opened my graduation present from my parents. A Garmin! Never was there ever a more appropriate gift – and just in time for my mid-month travels to Chicago! I already mapped out the distance between my two Chicago friends. 16 minutes separates them. It’s a small world after all! I fully intend…
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And So It Begins… (Part II)
Just For Fun: What Should My Summer Consist Of? The disc in my trunk for my disc golf – it’s part of my new quest. This summer, I have a quest to hone in on skills attributable to a) a hobo, b) a gypsy, or c) a hippy. I haven’t decided which yet. I think I…
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And So It Begins… (Part I)
The Recap: Weekend Tales, As Condensed As Possible This past week has been utterly fulfilling/captivating/inspiring/frustrating/testing/liberating/breaking/and satisfying. My last post sounds a little dramatic for how excited I feel about life right now but the subject matter hasn’t lightened any. I haven’t had any new revelations or results (though I should know more by Wednesday), but…
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Ugro – “Don’t Procrastinate. Percolate!”
Alright, it’s already 1:30pm and I’m just getting around to “writing” this 25 page paper that I needed to have done last week in order to graduate. It’s the last thing I want to do. I took the hard steps in convincing myself that I was making the right decision by turning down a potential…
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