This Saturday a small miracle happened in Madison—the first ever (at least to my knowledge) Women’s March. The march was organized by the amazing women of Madison’s Indivisible chapter. There were speeches and signs and singing and everything you’d … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: All We Had Was Each Other
January 15, 2018 By 1 Comment
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a re-post of one of my very first Madison Monday's. I love this book and I love this story for the way it demonstrates how our racial reality becomes taken-for-granted as natural and given, even though it … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: the cool people
January 8, 2018 By 2 Comments
Does this happen everywhere or is it just a small town thing? You see someone around over and over again and you think to yourself, they seem kind of cool. Why don’t I know them? Like, really, why don’t I know them? There are only about 15,000 people … [Read more...]
My Totally Random and Non-Definitive Best of 2017 List
December 11, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Best Resolution from 2016 I Followed Through On In December of 2016, as the world was just beginning its descent into the chaos and horror that would be 2017, I decided now was the time to start meditating every day. For real. None of this, okay, … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Main Street Loft Tour
October 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment
This was the second year for the amazing Madison Main Street Loft Tour. We didn't get to go last year because we had obligations at Hanover's homecoming. This year we skipped homecoming in favor of checking out some of the amazing spaces that hover … [Read more...]
Monday Musings
September 25, 2017 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been walking around more lately, even in the heat. Partly I’m walking to keep myself healthy. Partly I’m walking to get my sense of smell back. I read that exercise is supposed to help. I couldn’t smell anything for about three weeks this summer … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: what we don’t know
September 11, 2017 By Leave a Comment
When you fly into Key West, you spend a lot of time over the ocean before anything like land appears. There is water and water, and then tiny dots of green stuck in the middle. The first time I flew to Key West what struck me was how alone the island … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Labor Day Ramblings
September 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Cool Weather This weekend the weather turned cool for a few days and suddenly I wanted to do all the things. I got out of bed so excited on Friday. So excited about a whole day of drizzly rain. Rain and rain and rain (and not the sort like in … [Read more...]
Preserving Places: The Coffee Shop and the Corner Store
April 28, 2017 By 4 Comments
This is roughly the speech I gave on Friday at Preserving Places: Indiana's Statewide Historic Preservation Conference in lovely Wabash, Indiana. Great conference and a great town. I was so impressed with all the amazing things happening around our … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: sleeping with the windows open
March 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment
It really shouldn’t be warm enough in March to sleep with the windows open, but it is. Over the winter, you get used to hearing nothing more than the soft whooshing noise the heating system makes when it kicks on. In the winter, we live sealed off … [Read more...]
