Enough with the trifles, on to something more serious.
After my grandparents returned home from their 4-day stay in Chicago, my mother secretly revealed to me that prior to departing Florida, they worried we’d have nothing to talk about, that communication would be such a problem we’d end up just doing nothing all weekend. They were [...]
Category Archives: family
Cultural Identity, pt. 1
06-Nov-07Notes from New Orleans
10-Oct-07The French Quarter reminded me greatly of cities in Europe, particularly Amsterdam. Nick and I spent about an hour wandering the streets, sweating like crazy, trying to find this mythically great restaurant he once ate at years ago. After making a giant loop through some particularly seedy blocks we ended up back on Bourbon Street [...]
Plot Developments
26-Oct-06In the morning my sister who has been staying at my place for the greater part of a month will visit a boy in Michigan whom she has liked for a long time, a boy who is both more than a friend and yet less than a significant other. As far as I can tell, [...]
Family Time
24-Dec-05Merry Christmas, everybody. I hope your holidays are as filled with as many meaningful late-night sessions of screaming and laughing with siblings over 4-player Mario Party as mine have been.
3/8″
24-Feb-04For a long time it was something of a personal quest for my father to try to convince me to grow my hair out. Ever since the day I stunned my high school classmates by clipping my hair to a 3/8″ buzz, my father made sure every serious conversation included a reminder of how I [...]
