Awkwardly Emergent
Carissa Carter's day to day flow through design
Palindrome visits Grand Rapids on the Going Rogue Bus.
Where is Alanis Morissette when you need her? From the windows of my apartment I can see three retirement homes, three buildings run by the…
Palindrome visits Grand Rapids on the Going Rogue Bus.
Where is Alanis Morissette when you need her? From the windows of my apartment I can see three retirement homes, three buildings run by the rescue mission, and one scrap yard. If the perpetual haze of West Michigan would have lifted this week I might have been able to see Sarah Palin, twenty miles away in Grand Rapids. I was bombarded by local media channels informing me of the arrival of this exhausting “politician” for three straight days…http://www.snowflyzone.com/blog/?p=145
As I walked to my local coffee shop today, I counted.
I’m partial to one side of the street in downtown Holland, MI. I’ve tried the other side, but really, I have no interest in it other than…
On a CRJ 700 (that’s high-tech airplane speak for ’small, cramped aircraft that only flies to cities in the Midwest’) if you happen to score seat 17B, the flight attendant sits right next to your…
Lined paper makes me feel bad about myself.
I woke up this morning and decided to take on my day by watching three episodes of Greek on Hulu because I was too hungry to make breakfast. …
I saw some Republicans yesterday.
In fact, I saw hundreds, maybe millions. I was in the middle of an improv everywhere stunt, except the Republican canvassers didn’t sing show tunes, or…
My favorite Vans have a hole.
When I moved to Santa Cruz, CA in 2002 I made sure that everyone knew I was from Massachusetts. I arrived on time, brought a bunch of sweaters and khaki pants,…
It’s been a busy last few months, and now I’m a dot. We’re all dots. Today my dot was fairly simple. It lacked color and sheen. On Tuesday, I was metallic and iridescent. Dots can grow with time, or…
I had an excellent conversation today about an educational trend to deconstruct the traditional role of a principal into two (or more) positions: education director and chief-operating-officer. I am…
