I remember the exact outfit I wore to the first day of my freshman year of high school. The week before school started, I made my mom drive two towns over the to a store called “E-Street,” to buy me a pair of stretchy, dark-wash Mavi jeans, a white Michael…
View PostWhen I think of home, I think of summer. I think of humid afternoons in the backyard, and a wild chorus of locusts. I think of thunderstorms over Lake Michigan, and neighborhood kids playing kick-the-can in the alley behind my parent’s house. I think of lazy mornings at the beach,…
View PostIf there’s one food that’s synonymous with summer, it’s ice cream. As a kid, my friends and I used to constantly beg our parents to load up the mini van and drive us to the local ice cream shop. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and everyone in town…
View PostIn mid-June of 2020, my family made the trek from Southern California to Yosemite National Park for a relatively short-notice family vacation. If you’re unfamiliar with it’s location, Yosemite is about 3 hours east of San Francisco, 5 hours north-east of Los Angles, and 3000 miles from anywhere when you…
View PostLife Doesn’t Frighten Me is a poetic picture book, written by the late, great Maya Angelou, and illustrated by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The poem is childish in that it follows a simple rhyme scheme, and makes references to classroom bullies and Mother Goose, but there are also some pretty serious, grown-up…
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