Arbitrary Madness. Artistic Exploration. Dope Things.
What follows is my third and final story from my travels outside of my hometown that I believe challenges the big, bad, scary world notion that I address in my first contribution. T-Money Days after I graduated from college I packed everything I owned into the back of Victory, my 20 year old Volvo stationContinue Reading “Big Bad World – Part 3: T-Money.”
I had just finished an internship in Uganda and was maximizing my trip to the other side of the world by taking my college friend, Jayanti, up on a longstanding offer to visit her hometown in India. About halfway through my week visiting I accidentally ingested a whole green chili pepper while eating lunch inContinue Reading “Big Bad World – Part 2: ABS Challenge.”
I grew up in the shadows of a steel mill in a roughneck midwestern town. The kind of place where the youth view graduating and getting out as worthy of a lifetime achievement award. My parents are close to life-long residents of this rustbelt town. This town is the world they know. Their understanding of the world outside the town comes from brief experiences andContinue Reading “Big Bad World – Part 1.”
