Welcome to Canada! Enjoy your holding cell. Someone needs to redesign detention.  I pulled up to the border yesterday around 11am.  I rolled down my window at the checkpoint, placed a polite hello and ended up in Canadian immigration detention for an hour and a half. I’m convinced that the border employees had a pool […]

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There are no beaches in Belize and Michigan smells like hot dog. Two weeks ago I was eating real fruit.  I was also eating plantain chips, tortillas, beans, and apparently anything else I could get my hands on.  I’ve just returned from an excellent trip to Belize and in every photo, I’m eating.  To be […]

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Dutch costumes should only be resold on wire hangers. “Let’s push it out of the road and into the church,” said the Michigander.  Yes! Let’s.  As a friend pointed out, I was “lucky there was one nearby.”  Friday was my Jeep’s first day with its new Michigan license plate.  I made it approximately half of […]

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Come to Holland, MI where you can downhill ski in our urban city! I was called out on my consumption orientation yesterday.  I’ve eaten and enjoyed meat my whole life, but during dinner last night I wasn’t sure and my poker face was no help.  I’m not ready to subscribe to one camp or another.  […]

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Maybe next year Apolo Ohno will shave his soul patch. I hurled my body down an icy chute yesterday in a day of luging that just might have made the entire state of Michigan worth it.   In order to luge, you lay down on two big blades and the flimsy hammock that connects them and […]

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