I know this sounds cliche, but time really does fly when you’re having fun. It seems like just yesterday that my wife (fiancee at the time) packed up our Ann Arbor residence to move 30 miles east to Detroit so that I could start my year with Challenge Detroit. And now, here we are with […]
During my last semester at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business, I took a class titled “New Venture Creation”. The premise of the class was that over the course of 14 weeks, students would build an entire start-up company from the ground up. To be clear, we didn’t actually have to […]
Having lived in Ann Arbor before moving to Detroit, my wife and I are used to enjoying non-waterfront summer entertainment. Summers in Ann Arbor for us were spent playing sports, enjoying outdoor dining and watching free entertainment at the month-long Top of The Park festival. As good as we had it in Ann Arbor, I […]
It’s hard to believe but the Challenge Detroit fellowship is 75% complete. With only three months to go, my wife and I find ourselves constantly asking, “What’s next?” One thing is for certain, we want to stay in Detroit. Living, working, giving, playing and leading in the city over the past 9 months has been […]
Spring is here at last. After surviving the snowiest winter in Detroit’s history, flowers are now blooming, Eastern market is back to full force and streets are coming alive with bikers, joggers and walkers. I too am participating in these spring activities thanks to my wife finding the couch to 5k plan (as much as […]
It is March 30th and that means one very important thing to citizens across the entire state of Michigan—baseball opening day is tomorrow. Love it or hate it, baseball will be invading Detroit for the next 6 months. An avid sports fan, I am in the camp of loving it. My wife and I will […]
An absurd statement for sure, and one that does not hold true for 99.9% of the world, but that was the response from Detroit Police Chief James Craig to a recent death threat he received via social media. The threat came a day after Chief Craig led one of the largest drug raids the city […]
Growing up, I was always labeled as the clumsy one in my family. While that was probably true in my earlier years, by the time I reached adulthood I had pretty much put the clumsiness behind me. However, the label has remained. No matter how much I tried to shed that label, I was still […]
Ah, New Year’s Eve. It’s a time symbolic of a fresh start, filled with promise and limitless potential. Along with it comes the
tradition of the New Year’s resolution. While I can’t say that I’ve always made a personal resolution, I would be wrong to state that the practice is an unhealthy one. After all, the […]
November has been a historic month for the city of Detroit. A hotly contested election, a monumental court hearing and national attention for a Detroit small business are just a few of the happenings of the month. With so many things to write about, I found it impossible to decide on just one. So coming […]