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Author Archives: Megan
Local Food & Community
I’ve recently discovered a few organizations in the area that impart an immediate sense of community. The common thread to these organizations seems to be food, more specifically slow, local food. This first struck me as odd, or maybe just coincidental, but when I thought about it more, I wondered if there might not be something to it. People do tend to gather around meals, afterall – be it Thanksgiving dinner or Sunday brunch. It might be a learned association, or perhaps it’s innate, but either way by adulthood we all seem to associate food with social activities. Continue reading
Posted in Ann Arbor, Lingerlust
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Outsider
I’m still easing into this blogging thing. I like having a place to house the thoughts that have been occupying huge areas of my brain lately, but I don’t like the constant impostor feeling. The nagging sense that some phantom reader is judging the content, questioning the point, and doubting my qualifications when I throw out some half-baked critique of something else. Continue reading
Getting Ghost
This blog is about my conscious commitment to place and location, and for a reformed nomad like myself, that commitment requires effort. Part of that effort has been reading up on the area, including Ann Arbor, Detroit, the Detroit suburbs, and Michigan in … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club, Detroit
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Art in Indianapolis & Detroit
On Sunday, I checked out the new 100 Acres sculpture garden at the Indiana Museum of Art with an old friend from high school. It offers a gorgeous trail walk around a pond next to the White River with sculptures interspersed. … Continue reading
Connection
We walked past the Eiteljorg Museum, devoted to Native American art… “Weird, when I was a kid, I felt like the Eiteljorg was in the middle of nowhere practically,” I commented. “That’s because it kind of was,” my mom explained. Now it feels like an integral part of downtown, surrounded by parks, cafes, condos, and other museums. It just needed to be connected. Continue reading
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Michigan, home of people who stay in Michigan
Moving around (not just traveling) has widened my worldview, and I like the person I’ve become as a result. I encourage people I know to leave home and to try living somewhere new. And I do feel that people who stay in one place their whole lives miss out on something special… But I also believe those of us who buy into the new “mobile culture” lose something too. Continue reading
Posted in Lingerlust, Michigan
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I believe in Pegasus
About a year into living here, I discovered Sweet-Juniper!, an engaging blog about a young family in Detroit proper. The ex-lawyer/stay-at-home-dad in the family (Jim/”Dutch”) fills his days exploring Detroit with his children. These tales of daily exploration and discovery inspired me. That this man would venture through “America’s most dangerous city” (a dubious, but prevalent epithet) with two young children emboldened me. I started developing lists of Detroit to-dos and then doing them. I’m glad I did. Continue reading
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Detroit: City On The Move
A friend sent me a link to a 1965 promotional video for Detroit– Detroit: City On The Move. It’s heartbreaking and ironic. From the positive rhetoric about tearing down slums (which was devastating to the black community) to its naive description about ethnic diversity and harmony (just two years before the race riots), it’s hard not to cringe at how far off the mark the video is. Continue reading
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Michigan by choice
Michigan’s current net migration is outbound, not inbound. People obviously aren’t clamoring to move here–why did I? Continue reading
Posted in Ann Arbor, Lingerlust, Wanderlust
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Staying put
This blog is a home for my musings on place and community, planting roots and the daily choice to stay put, not flee. Continue reading
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