For some reason I have been keeping close tabs on how many years I've been out of high school. For a while I've noticed my 10-year reunion steadily looming on the horizon, growing ever nearer. Come this spring, it will be 10 years since I graduated, which also means that it will be 10 years since I lived in Nebraska. No matter, my 10-year reunion ( Read more... )

Last night, after getting home from dinner and karaoke with a friend, I began looking through old pictures on my computer. For the first time since getting to Japan, I allowed myself to finally flip through a folder entitled "Goodbye, Chicago," which chronicles my last two weeks in the Windy City. (You can check out some of the pictures in my "Oops ( Read more... )