Correspondence

Advice: A Going-Away Letter

July 26, 2010

To my brother Jackson, Today Mom and Dad are going to drive you to Lansing and you’re going to check in to leave for basic training in the Army. I’d imagine that you’re both excited and terrified (whether or not you’ll admit it). When you and Cait and Mom and Dad drove me to East [...]

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Borrowed Wings

July 15, 2010

Dear Grandpa, It has now been a year since the last time I saw you, and it seems like the longest and shortest year of my life all at once. Last July I never expected for another July to arrive. And yet, twelve months have come and gone and a lot has happened. I got [...]

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An Open Letter

June 15, 2010

To the high school kid who decided to yell choice insults at me as I waited outside the martial arts studio: Congratulations—you’re the biggest idiot I’ve come across in quite a while. Felt pretty brave, didn’t it, to yell trashy things from inside the back of your friend’s SUV. Your vocabulary was truly high-level. You [...]

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An Open Letter to the Universe

May 21, 2010

Dear Universe, How are you? I am fine. I hope you’re having a good day. I kind of have to wonder, because here we are on another Friday morning, watching the clouds take over. Jack had big plans to ride his bike to the office today. Did you know that? Except now he can’t, because [...]

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An Open Letter

March 17, 2010

To the stumbling drunk girl on Harrison road at quarter of five this evening, I knew when I woke up this morning that it is Saint Patrick’s Day and that much of my day is spent on a Big Ten college campus. I knew that if I ventured in the direction of Grand River at [...]

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