For the first three decades of my life, I couldn’t stand coffee. I didn’t like the taste. Couldn’t stand the smell. I have memories of my sister and me tagging along to the bowling alley where our mother participated in league. (She once bowled a perfect game. They gave her a mug and all relatedContinue reading “A Long Overdue Love Letter to Coffee”
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When it Rains…
I often joke – give me a flat surface devoid of even a spec of dust, and I will find something to trip over. Sadly, it’s not so much a joke as it is the truth. I’m the sort of klutz who catches her elbows on doorknobs and who discovers bruises of unknown origins justContinue reading “When it Rains…”
Indigenous Peoples Day
I live on land that was at various times occupied by the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Hoocąk, Menominee, and the Niúachi (all names provided are their own – they are not anglicized here). There are records of the Menominee from 1831, a ratified treaty, granting the land noted in Cession 159 to the Menominee. In this document,Continue reading “Indigenous Peoples Day”
The Theater
My family first encountered Bob Thompson when we were camping (at what was then our family run Camp-Tel Family Campground). Part of the grounds includes five acres of apple trees, and we were wandering around amongst them when we stumbled upon a man… talking to the trees. What we didn’t know at the time wasContinue reading “The Theater”
What Even is Time?
I find myself once again going – where did the time go? Surely it hasn’t been two months since I last posted here. But alas – it almost has been. The last time I wrote, though, I wasn’t expecting everything that was to follow: oven fire (everything is fine, though I went a month withoutContinue reading “What Even is Time?”
Ami Maxine 