this entry is meant to be a wrap-up for the year; the fellowship will soon be over and we’re on to our next adventures. my next adventrue began by chance all the way back in october of last year. i was feeling underutilized at my host company and sought out projects with last year’s fellow […]
the presentation of our challenge addressing neighborhood quality of life with detroit future city marked the last time we would convene as fellows on a friday. enter into a month of under-socialization and mixed feelings about another year gone by.
all was not lost, we were not left to subsist on work at our host companies alone, there […]
it’s amazing what nice weather can do for one’s social life.
there are many fine cultural institutions in detroit such as the DIA, the historical museum, motown. but save those for october-may because once it’s finally warm enough to exist without five layers on, you are going to want to be outside all. of. the. time.
patio […]
a year ago, i was humbled and exhilarated to receive an email from challenge detroit welcoming me into the second year of the program. i’ve been struggling this month to wrap my head around what has happened, what i did, and whether it meant anything or will continue to matter.
instead of getting sidetracked into existentialism, i […]
this month, i’m having a hard time pinning down a blog topic. a lot has happened in april: i moved from rivertown to midtown, my mom came to spend a week and i went to the dia for the first time with her, the weather is teasing us with a few nice days, i’ve been […]
when i moved to detroit in july of last year, i settled into the lofts at rivertown, directly across the street from the uniroyal site and one block west of the bridge to belle isle. really close to west village which is rapidly developing, but really far away from work, yoga, coffee shops, restaurants, friends, […]
i started out february in one position at DTE and am ending it in an entirely different one. i call it “doing the corporate shuffle,” 1) because it took so. long. and 2) because a lot of things had to be rearranged, like the internal order number for my pay, my desk phone, my office […]
i often get asked “why detroit?” i find it a peculiar question, as it is borne of the presupposition that there are reasons why i should not want to live here. if someone asks “why austin?” they expect to hear praises of live music, start-ups, tacos, and weirdness. but if someone asks “why detroit?” they […]
after eight and a half hours of driving, i finally merged onto the last highway i needed to get me home to my family for christmas, a road that should have been familiar. instead, the new hwy 29/hwy 41 interchange in the heart of green bay, wisconsin looked like something out of the jetson’s with […]
this month, our challenge partner is ModeShift, an organization devoted to advocating for bicycling in the motor city, and the project has had me thinking about my personal methods of transportation.
i have avoided owning a car for the last seven years, vehemently denouncing car ownership and vowing never to own one myself. i masochistically love the challenge […]