Short Trip Home

This summer has been a wondrous, dizzying blur of jet-setting, delicious foods, old and new family/friends, and new experiences. I feel like I haven’t been home in Chicago for more than a few days or a week at a time (that’s not true, but it certainly …

H&H

I drove back to Madison from Rockford with an absolutely empty feeling in my gut (despite my heavy lunch, *foghorn*). I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was, exactly. I drove with the windows down the whole way back, and it was sunny, and I was …

Giving Back

This past summer, I was an AmeriCorps member through the Volunteer Center of Story County (VCSC) as a Summer Garden Associate.  That’s a fancy title for someone who got to work at community gardens around Ames.  I got the pleasure of working …