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Clear filtersDesk Quest
September 7, 2009
Yard sales, integrating into the Oberlin community, and the hunt for the perfect antique desk.
Pleasant, Pleasant, Pleasant
August 10, 2009
In this post: two apologies, meta-blogging, Rust Belt aesthetics, an Oberlin vignette, pacts with readers, and overwrought prose.
A Feasible Feastible Festival of Local Flavor
July 25, 2009
Keeping in the vein of keeping my blog Oberlin-centric, even if I'm a few thousand miles removed, I'm going to do a run down of local food things I like to play with, in Oberlin industrial kitchens and Hawaiian home kitchens. Kitchens are my playgrounds, but with infinitely more sharp objects and dangerous things the average kid shouldn't play with.
My Date with Cleveland
July 5, 2009
Until this summer, I'd never spent a full day in Cleveland. It was time to change that. It was time to get to know Cleveland, to see if I wanted to deepen our relationship.
A glorious return: Commencement Week shenanigans
June 3, 2009
There's a flower shop on S. Main that writes a different name on their sign every day, and if you are blessed with that particular name, you get a free flower. I had never seen my own name until this past Commencement.
Welcome to the Midnight Movie
May 27, 2009
Under the new management, the Apollo now has two-dollar matinees, is screening a few different movies a week, and they're starting up a great new-old tradition: the midnight movie.
Ode to Lorain County
April 30, 2009
Lorain County has an amazing set of metro parks all over the county, full of hiking/running paths, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, creeks, waterfalls, natural wetlands, tons of wildlife - and all linked by a bikeable set of country highways that make up the Back Roads and Beaches route.
Toni Morrison says we are a big deal
April 24, 2009
Our president Marvin Krislov presented Dr. Morrison with several gifts, one of which included a note from her 91-year-old first grade teacher from Lorain, Ohio - a phenomenal moment to consider that this powerful, Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning, larger-than-life inspiration to me was once upon a time, merely a first grader.
4:30 a.m. shenanigans, karaoke Tuesday, and the dating scene at Oberlin
April 20, 2009
Picture three of us lying on our backs with our heads on each other's stomachs, listening to the birds waking up, and talking about life after college.
In support of my public library
March 29, 2009
I could spend the rest of this post muttering to myself about the eight books I read over break. However, I don't think that's what you're here for.
A Congress of Art at the Congressional Art Show
March 11, 2009
For three weeks of the year, the walls of the Bent corridor (which I totally thought was just a descriptor, not the name of two illustrious alumni, up until last week) are graced with beautiful local artwork from students from the 9th Congressional District. I was ever so lucky to be there photographing it.
Yay sun! (and bikes, history, and tree climbers)
March 7, 2009
I'm not even a huge history buff, but there's something stirring to the soul about stumbling across an old, crumbling stone and barely being able to make out the engraved letters: Born a slave, died free.
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