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Two stories: Once, I was sitting in the behind the driver’s seat in a van with all the windows rolled down on a windy day. The driver spat out his window just as I opened my mouth to speak and the wind sucked the spit right back through my window and into my open mouth! Another time,… Read More

I don't know how to choose just one teacher! My kindhearted 3rd grade teacher patiently allowed me to spend several months of lunch periods her room because I was afraid of the lunch lady who yelled at the kids. She helped me realize I didn't need to be governed by fear. In college,… Read More

I adopted Stella when I was in college. She was about 9 months when my then-roommate's mom rescued her and is nearly 10 years old now. Hudson was born in my parents' garage when I moved home for a hot second after graduation, and he was the one I got to keep. He's 5 now. Stella didn't… Read More

Not my country of origin, but the country that has my heart—in Grenada, West Indies, we would make fish head soup with assorted veggies and, of course, a fish head. The treat in that, of course, was getting an eyeball. I half wonder if our Grenadian friends just liked to get us Americans… Read More

@littlecoal is fantastic! He makes Northwest Ohio look like a woodsy, fantastic destination, and that is hella difficult to do. Please check him out—you will not regret it!

Before I really knew anything about anything to do with cooking, I thought I'd be nice and make pancakes for my housemates. Unfortunately I was tired enough to mistake the little "t" for tablespoons and read "baking powder" as "baking soda". Additionally, I doubled the recipe, so… Read More

As an adolescent, I would pause the game, move all my park mascots over water, and then un-pause the game in order to drown them all simultaneously and make my younger brother cry.

Cockroaches were regular inhabitants of our mission base in Grenada W.I.. We'd typically treat the compound on a monthly basis, but on this particular occasion, we must have missed a month. I was reading in the courtyard when I happened to glance down and see a funny little cock-a-lockin… Read More

When you sign up to do missions in a tropical place, you assume that you'll have regular interactions with insects of all kinds. It was the first night of my internship in Grenada, W.I. and I was just freshening up in my new bathroom in my new home. Happened to glance over and see… Read More