vacation | Marginalia

What’s the definition of insanity? It very well may be driving across four states with two small children. Well, ok, it’s not that bad..

Two weeks ago, I went to Detroit. I was visiting friends in Ann Arbor for the weekend when we decided to get brunch in Detroit. We end..

Last week, I wrote about my trek home for the holidays and how it afforded me two much needed vantage points: from a distance, it allo..

A little over five hours and right at three-hundred miles away form Chicago is St. Louis, Missouri. My extended family lives there, and I ..

My friends joke with me and say that I travel more than anyone they know, which is especially strange for a graduate student. We aren’..

A few posts ago, I mentioned a mini-poetry-tour, and a few folks requested a blog post about it.

So here it goes:

Sometimes you just have to get away. The past couple of weeks have been brutal in Chicago. The temperature has been oh so high, making..