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) [...]
To my knowledge, there are etiquette rules that apply when males are using urinals in restrooms. (Please bear with me here.) My older brother A is emphatic on this, and I asked IP to confirm it yesterday: when you walk into a bathroom and see one of the urinals occupied, you attempt to put at [...]
Yesterday, as I was waiting for the Metro at Silver Spring at the godforsaken hour of 6am (I really can’t believe I’m saying that—I used to run six miles at that hour, now it’s all I can do to manage three miles at 6pm), I happened to look over to a brightly lit entrance to [...]
So far, Writing Ann Arbor: An Anthology has been less about Ann Arbor and more about the University of Michigan. It’s safe to say that, without the university, Ann Arbor would be much like Saline or Dexter or Milan in Michigan—small, quiet, far enough away from Detroit to not take on the city’s browbeaten [...]
For Christmas, IP gave me a coffee table book called The University of Michigan Story: Hail to the Victors (valiant, Hail! to the conqu’ring heros, Hail! Hail! to Michigan the leaders and best!). It is a lovely book full of pictures and drawings of Ann Arbor and the University from its establishment in 1817 [...]
