Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and Why I’m Going Abroad the First Chance I Get ( Read more... )

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...It wasn't just my internship that made my experience with the American Cities Program unforgettable. Living in Atlanta was exciting, challenging, and rewarding. I grew up in the Boston area, so the idea of living in a southern city was incredibly appealing to me, if not a little terrifying. I had never experienced the South before, and I didn ( Read more... )

There is nothing a good run can't fix. I feel like I can do ANYTHING.

And the other Jim Graham story I have is there was one practice here he just rode me all practice. You're doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong, go back and do it again, you owe me, you're doing push-ups after practice. And when it was all over, one of the other assistant coaches came over and said, yeah, Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn ( Read more... )

Damn, life is good.

Last weekend so many worlds collided and I was catapulted forwards and backwards at the same time and I spent the rest of the week peeling the hot pink nail polish off my nails and thinking about people and relationships and how we're all connected and disjointed and part of something much bigger (I just accidentally typed better...maybe that's the ( Read more... )

( on with tradition )

how lucky am I? so damn lucky.

it's been such a hard season and the bridges we burned might be all we had to keep us from drowning. but at least we had this time; and i'd like to think we're better off for it. i'll remember this. sometimes broken things make the best building supplies. and we'll keep on building. hearts aren't made of glass, they're made of muscle and blood and ( Read more... )