One year down in Detroit. It is hard to sum up what I have done and seen over the last 12 months, so here are ten things Challenge Detroit taught me this year:
10: If there is pizza always say yes
This is pretty self-explanatory.
9: You always need someone to push you further than you think you […]
If you know me at all you would know that I love food. All kinds of food. It might be the hospitality major in me, but whenever I sit down with a group of people for a good meal, I am as happy as clam. This explains why I chose Detroit SOUP as my last […]
I am a girl who likes to see the glass half full. A girl who sees the sky as partly sunny not partly cloudy. A girl who tries to be optimistic in the worst times. That might be the reason that I have found myself in the place I am now. I see Detroit as […]
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to travel home to visit my amazing family and friends. As I may have mentioned in the past, I am originally from Traverse City, Michigan, located 4 hours north of Detroit, in between two beautiful fresh water bays. As I toured wineries, ate good food and reminisced about […]
I would like to introduce the blogisphere to my loving boyfriend. He has not been mentioned in the last few blogs because I knew I could not do him justice. So this week is his week to blog about his passion and love for not only detroit but his love for archeology. My real life Indiana Jones is […]
As many know, opening day for the Tigers is a holiday here in Downtown Detroit. The city fills up with people of all ages wearing their orange and blue proudly. The lot across the street from my place fills up with cars of all kinds, and people arrive from the metro area in large groups.
I […]
As I shift between reverse and drive, in my car not designed for snow, I finally give in to the fact that I am stuck in a snowbank that seems to have taken over every parking spot in the city of Detroit. This has happened more than once to me this year. Yes, it is […]
Now that we have all officially become snow mutants taking on the polar vortex, I figured it was my time to talk about snow days and homelessness. Now I am sure you are like, “LAURIE, I AM DONE WITH SNOW, STOP TALKING ABOUT IT,” and I do love snow, I can’t lie, but the snow […]
Second guessing ourselves is something we all do. You know you do it, and I know I do it. Heck, I’m even second guessing writing this blog about second guessing. And, at the end of the year, this silly little phenomenon seems to happens even more. We take a look at our lives, compare them […]
Despite what some people may think with my pure grace and awesome stature… no I am not a ninja.
So what is it that I really do?
In real life, I am the Innovation Xchange Coordinator for General Motors (fancy, huh?) I work in a 10,000 square foot space in the iconic Renaissance Center, located in the […]