summer | Marginalia

Hello again, reader!

I am back from a bit of an extended hiatus after attending Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine ..

Just before show time at iO’s Del Close Theater

I just started my latest summer adventure this past Saturday. I’m taking improv classe..

Hi again, reader!

I’m writing to you now several weeks into the summer as the imminence of thesis starts to feel more and more real. Ou..

Made the drive from Chicago to Austin, TX last week. This here is somewhere in Arkansas? Texas? Who knows!

This summer, I’m taking a r..

For millions of K-12 school children, the three “R’s” traditionally refer to reading, writing, and arithmetic. When it comes to summer bre..

Looking up at the park.

Chicago loves summer. I mean Chicago really loves summer. From the moment the sun started staying out past 5 o..

So close, yet so far

Halfway through summer and it finally hit me: I’m about a month away from my final semester of school…

EVER…

Summertime?!

Commencement is over. I said goodbye to the graduate student experience of the past two years and welcomed a new one. I a..

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For a truly serious MFAer, the summer is made for writing, for producing as much great stuff as possible without l..

All right, I shouldn’t complain. My newfound closeness to Canada gave me an excuse to visit Montreal this summer, and I even got ..