While shopping in the soda aisle at the Rockville Pike Giant, IP and I stumbled upon Diet Vernors ginger ale. For those who don’t know, Vernors is a Michigan ginger ale, dating back to 1866. It is the best ginger ale, period. Canada Dry is great, and Shweppes is okay, but Vernors? Excellent and quintessentially [...]
You suck. I mean, I already knew that you sucked. You proved it four years ago when you didn’t listen to our valid roadway concerns way back in the day, choosing to side with a company in Ohio and Toyota over your residents (count your lucky stars there hasn’t been an accident on that road [...]
To my fellow Macy Minorities in Medicine Scholars, particularly those from the inaugural class of 1995 . . .
Ben Carson’s better than you.
That is all.
(Yeah, about 50 people would get this. More if the subsequent classes had to read Gifted Hands like we did.)
The questions were these:
Your first very best friend in the whole world?
First crush? Do you remember what you even liked about that person?
Grade school bully?
I answered them in order: my best friend was M, my first crush was C, and I couldn’t remember the grade school bullies’ names from Saline—but I did remember that they [...]
I’m back from Michigan, having seen the wedding venue options for the grand matrimonial event for WordNerd and IP! I’d say you’re cordially invited, Internets, but our budget’s already a bit stretched. Perhaps I can pipe you in via video teleconference?
Kidding aside, the visit was fruitful in that a) we’re on the verge of deciding [...]
Wedding planning so far has been, as I predicted in my last post, alternatively stressful and fun. Fun part! Knowing who your bridesmaids are immediately (little sis Dorkus is my maid of honor, my good friend L from my Dyn-o-mite! days is my bridesmaid). Stressful part! Realizing you know way too many people and happen [...]
This past weekend in Michigan is easily defined: fun.
Mathgeek’s Graduation: He’s free! Mathgeek graduated with highest honors from high school, ready to tackle the next challenge: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I took the kid out for lunch on Monday, offering what I hoped was good starter advice for a new college [...]
When I was writing fiction – and I took my time writing seriously – I was always struggling for an idea of identity. My biggest ambition was to write an entertaining yet enlightening view of what it’s like to live in the upper Midwest as a Mexican child, the only Mexican child in that [...]
Many congrats to my little brother Mathgeek, who called me last night to inform me that the University of Michigan has accepted the fourth and final WordNerdian offspring to their illustrious institution (how could they not—I mean, he’s a WordNerdian). He’s been accepted to the College of Engineering and, should he accept their offer (there [...]
When I stumble across weird Saline, Michigan news and see that the majority of my high school classmates are married (even the ugly ones! Ay!), I have to take deep breaths and keep on telling myself:
“Focus on their jobs. Focus on their jobs. No one has a career as good (read: well-paying) [...]
