A Problem Named Sherman
Weekly Writing Challenge: Write a post written entirely in slang, dialect, or a regional accent. Author’s note: This is Detroit slang, but it’s been over fifteen…
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I was born here: I think that’s where I was born anyway. Actually, I’m not sure if that is the right place since the hospital I…
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The Daily Post asked what it would take to get me to move out of state. “If someone you trusted offered you $1000 to move to…
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“Of course, humans aren’t dependent on technology. That’s just preposterous! I could totally survive without it,” she typed on her computer while listening to music magically…
Read articleDetroit, My First Love
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, USA, western hemisphere. I was first brought into the world at Grace Hospital just south of Seven Mile…
Read articleSnow Day
How do you stay entertained when you are snowed in? I live in southern California where snow days don’t even exist. I know people who have…
Read articleWhat My Home Says About Me
My home says that it’s not my home. My home says that I live with a boy who, admittedly, has no sense of personal style. He…
Read articleRoad Trip!!
I’ve taken a lot of road trips over the course of my life. Some of them turned out to be disastrous, some were amazing, others were…
Read articleOn Being Finnish
For most of my life, being of Finnish descent meant having a last name chock full of vowels that no one can spell nor pronounce; possessing…
Read articleThe Best Advice I Ever Received
When I was in my early twenties, the lure of the great, big, bad world, which I hadn’t really seen, was becoming too magnetic, pulling me…
Read articleWhere Did The Bumper Go?
I am originally from Detroit, Michigan, the center of the domestic automotive universe, the home of The Big Three automakers: Ford, GM and Chrysler. Not only…
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