The past year of my life has revolved around being a Challenge Detroit Fellow. This proved to be a whirlwind of balancing two intense jobs, learning a new city, educating myself about the culture of the Midwest, and meeting goals in my personal life. It was an honor to be a Challenge Detroit Fellow. Sure, […]
Living six hours away from home means I typically bake a phone call into my plans every Sunday afternoon. It is not a chore, nor is it vexing to spend an hour on the phone with my parents or other family members who might be around the house when I ring. I followed this usual […]
Since arriving in Michigan, I have been inundated with comments about traveling “up north”. This suggestion is usually aided with comments about northern Michigan being beautiful, full of lakes, and being entirely different than Detroit. In fact, multiple people have described the adventure as “the more north you go in Michigan the more southern it […]
This is my favorite time of the year. Birds are chirping, people are sitting on their porches, and winter coats have disappeared. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching Detroit come back to life with Slow Roll, cookouts, and outside sports. The month of April included a trip home to speak at my Alma mater and a lovely […]
A few weeks ago, a history professor at the University of Kentucky reached out to me and asked if I was willing to speak to her class about my post-graduation life with a liberal arts degree. Upon further investigation, she divulged she recently created a class titled Careers in History in an effort to work […]
In all honesty, all I can think about is springtime. Events include St. Patrick’s Day (three days before spring officially starts but work with me here), March Madness (Go Cats), Keeneland (horse racing), Easter, The Kentucky Derby, Cinco de Mayo, and Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are finally going to fight. I’m ready! I’m also […]
2015! Wow, I remember the 2014 celebrations like it was a few weeks ago. I was working at Walt Disney World at the time and I was squished between thousands of people who joyously hugged and kissed each other when the fireworks took off into the midnight sky (please let out an “awww” here). It […]
Hello! Thanks for checking in again to read about my life this month. And this month isn’t any old month, it’s full of holidays – Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and my birthday! Speaking of which, I turned a cool 24 the first week of December and had a group of prodigious Challenge Detroiters help me […]
Seasons greetings ya’ll. May you have the happiest of holidays and I hope you recently indulged in turkey and pumpkin pie with family and friends while NFL football played in the background of your family conversations during Thanksgiving. Mind you, the Detroit Lions played on Thanksgiving Day and have been doing so since 1934 and […]
Hello! Hallo! Hola! I hope everybody reading this is having a fantastic month – it is hard to believe that November is knocking on the door. With that being said, I hope everyone has a groovy Halloween costume to show off this year. As for myself, I will be sporting a costume that I put […]