Dear Detroit,
I’m sorry to say but it’s time for me to go.
But before I do, I just want to thank you for some things.
Thanks for being full of beautiful and diverse people. I’ll miss morning hellos from Detroiters as I walk to work. I’ll miss their spirit and belief in a city that not many […]
In less than four months I’ll be married. I don’t think it’s fully hit me yet, and it probably won’t until sometime in September.
As a child of divorce I often thought I would never get married. What was the point? Why spend all that money? Do you really need a piece of paper to validate […]
When you first meet me you’ll learn two things.
I love sports and I love my two brothers.
Somewhere in between conversations of the 2006 Tigers or Michigan State’s latest Final Four run, you’ll inevitably learn about two of the most important people in my life, my brothers Brian and Jeff.
Being the older brother a great thing. […]
I am not the biggest hockey fan in the world, count the Tigers and Michigan State sports above the Detroit Red Wings in the list of my favorite teams, but I remember the 1997 Stanley Cup Playoffs clear as day.
My mom, a native Detroiter, made every game an event that early summer, but most memorably […]
The Stan “the Man” Musial Award. I still remember it. Somewhere, I bet, my mom still has it.
It was the end of 7th grade, and our teacher, a St. Louis Cardinals fan, was giving out awards to the class for the year. I remember thinking there’s no way I get an award, and I remember […]
This has been tougher than I thought.
Not the job, or challenges, but physically being in Detroit.
From playing sports with old friends and seeing family in the suburbs to visiting my fiancé in Chicago every other week, I feel like I haven’t been here much. It’s hit me this week, as February dwindled down, that there’s […]
We are lazy. We are self-centered. We care more about technology than other people. These are all common narratives for my generation. It includes those born in the early 80’s unto the turn of the millennium. They call us Millennials, and as we get older what they say about us is changing, it may be […]
My favorite singer/songwriter Stephen Kellogg recently wrote about the things he learned (or re-learned) in 2014. In an ode to him, and to deliver a bit of self- reflection, here’s the top 5 things I have learned or re-learned this year.
1) Take Leaps
• I moved from Chicago to Detroit after two years in the Windy […]
In November, I turned to my fellow fellow Hayden McNeil who had accompanied me to a Michigan State tailgate and asked him “How much he loved Michigan now?!”. It was a cold, classic, Michigan fall day. East Lansing had grey skies and a little bit of a drizzle, just to make you uncomfortable, and it […]
Holding on tightly as I hung out my Dad’s passenger side window as he speed through New York City I took this picture.
The shot above was incredibly lucky. The way the bridge carries you through the frame and how the man with his bike gives you a sense of small he is compared to his […]