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October 16, 2016 9 Comments

The Big Move in Retrospect: Everything good and the bad about moving from Indianapolis to Chapel Hill

We moved around a lot when I was a kid, so I didn't really have a home town. There were two years in Indianapolis, four in Virginia, two in Maryland, back to Indiana for two more years, until we landed in Louisville, Kentucky where we stayed for eight years. (Thank, God.) The summer before I... [Read More]

September 22, 2016 5 Comments

That was easier than I expected

I'm not talking about the move. The move was as hard as expected, if not more so. I am talking about updating my Indiana voter registration. I relocated to the Hoosier state earlier this month, and I'll write more about all of that when I'm not so damn tired and my head doesn't hurt so... [Read More]

August 15, 2016 23 Comments

Soon I’ll be back home again in Indiana

The short version: I was trying to move across town, but I've decided to move back to Indiana instead. The long version: Last year my apartment complex introduced a mandatory amenity plan that costs $125 a month on top of my normal rent. The plan includes cable TV, cable internet, and valet trash, and although... [Read More]

July 25, 2016 3 Comments

Stuff I like – July 2016: Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

The first thing I read by Amy Krouse Rosenthal was her column “15 Megabytes of Fame” hosted at a web site called “The Center for the Easily Amused” which is sadly no more, perhaps because the entire internet is now a place for people to be easily amused. This was in the late 90’s, when the world wide web was shiny and new and far less misogynistic. Amy’s column was hand-written with some doodles and illustrations and posted as a scanned image. [Read More]

June 10, 2016 8 Comments

Waiting for the bus on Muhammad Ali

The first thing I think of when I hear the name "Muhammad Ali" is all the time I spent waiting for the 55 bus on Muhammad Ali Boulevard in Louisville, Kentucky. I was born in the 80's so most of Ali's major achievements happened before I was born. However, I spent a lot of time... [Read More]