The relentless march of efficiency claims another victim: the romance of the border crossing. In 2020, as I prepared for a trip to Asia with my brothers, I flipped through my expiring passport before surrendering it to the State Department. It was a chaotic, ink-stained ledger of the previous decade. There was my first stamp […]
In the summer of 2012, sitting a booth in the lunchroom of the basement of GE Aviationâs Building 800, I found myself subject to advertisement after advertisement of political candidates and issues. This is a common occurrence; a result of living in Ohio during a major election cycle that I and my 11 million fellow […]
🦠 This is my fourth post in my Remembrances of Covid series. Click here to check out the third one. My last post discussed: leaving my employer, my only ever full time job, and one I had held for more than six years. moving out of the house my friends and I had rented for […]
🦠 This is my third post in a 5 part series, Remembrances of Covid. Click here to check out the second one. June-July Sometime in June my employer was really pushing to have employees come back to the office beginning mid-July. I made plans to return back to Madison to enjoy the summer with my […]
🦠 This is my second publication in my series on Covid. Check out the previous post here. March 2020 Furor over the virus was growing the past month. The university and other more liberal (or government funded) facilities began shutting down in early March. Trump was talking about the virus spreading from China and I […]
History is written by the victors. Now that Covid is largely “over”, I want to write a number of my experiences & observations down, so that my memory is not tainted by the spin of my community, media, or politicians–in other words, those with vested interests to spin the reality we lived through from early […]
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Alright, another week has passed since our last igloo update, and we’ve got lots of progress to report! But alas, we’ve not yet completed the igloo. Sierrane and I spent many hours this week in our diligent manufacture of bricks, with Sierrane doing (in my opinion) much of the heavy lifting of emptying the aluminum […]
Alright, it’s been a little over a week since Sierrane and I began our igloo journey and committed ourselves to long, cold, and exciting work of putting a roof over our heads this winter. Since we’ve started, our friend Kristen joined us, and we’ve made a ton of progress (which you’ll see and read about […]
Last week my roommate, Sierrane, stormed into my room proclaiming that we should build an igloo. She didn’t have to sell me on it, I was in. The next day I stepped outside to see Sierrane shoveling a respectable quantity of snow and building a circular snowbank in our backyard. I went to research igloo […]
The past few years my brothers and I have held an annual “workout” competition 💪😎. The workout competition goes as follows: Each competitor must workout 4 times a week Weeks start on Mondays and end on Sundays Workouts should typically be no less than 30 minutes in length (but this is always a judgement call) […]
Last weekend I woke up, and thought, I’d really love to splurge on calories, and go to the Pancake Cafe, a favorite of mine. “Fuck it, I’m sick of Covid” crossed my mind multiple times. And I am. I’m sick of Covid. This has been going on for almost a year. This time last year, […]