Posts tagged "indianapolis"

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]

May 5, 2014 12 Comments

The fault in my location

I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green this weekend because I kept hearing about how highly anticipated the movie is. I was afraid the book might not live up to the hype, but it did, being equal parts funny and sad, exploring light-hearted topics like life and death and the fear of... [Read More]

December 21, 2012 7 Comments

Indy Explosion Fallout

If anyone was wondering what happened in regard to that Indianapolis house explosion I blogged about last month, three people were arrested today for intentionally setting the blast that killed two people and has led to 31 houses having to be demolished due to irreparable damages. The owner of the house had serious financial problems... [Read More]

November 11, 2012 8 Comments

An explosion heard on Twitter

The scene from the multi home explosion on the southside of Indianapolis. @indystar twitter.com/MattKryger/sta…— Matt Kryger (@MattKryger) November 11, 2012 For two minutes last night it seemed possible that my mother's apartment complex had exploded. (It didn't.) It was midnight. I was checking Twitter. An Indianapolis friend said there had been a loud boom on... [Read More]

October 11, 2012 2 Comments

Love is for the birds. Peregrine falcons, to be specific.

Of all the things I achieved at my last job, I am most proud of setting up the falcons on Facebook. I am not talking about a sports team. I'm talking about two actual Peregrine falcons, Kinney and KathyQ, who made their love nest in a box at the top of a skyscraper in Indianapolis... [Read More]