One thing I’m looking forward to most in 2015 is growing professionally. I loved my old job for the people but I wasn’t challenged by the work. As I prepared to changed jobs, I discovered I needed to find a position that would allow me to grow and development my skills. A starting point in … More Inforum
Sunday’s SOUP was the 96th event. In five years $84,617 has been raised to support local organizations. Here’s information about the groups we heard from: Detroit Little Libraries Little libraries are a global movement Detroit is apart of. Around the world there are 20,000 free standing, public boxes filled with books and 36 of them … More Detroit SOUP Part II: The Proposals
Detroit SOUP is everything I love about Detroit, city living and my generation. For a suggested donation of $5 you get a homemade meal, a setting to connect with people invested in strengthening the community and the opportunity to make a difference by helping an organization/business receive money for a specified project. I’ve read a … More Detroit SOUP Part I: The Program
Some wise words from Amy Poehler that stick with me this first week after my job. I’ve never been good at doing things I’m not ready for. For the most part I avoid it at all costs. I don’t believe in regrets but my #1 regret in life is not taking AP English or Government … More Happy Friday!
I think it’s pretty obvious from the blog that I’m an avid reader. I love books. I almost always have one with me because you never know when you’re going to be stuck waiting somewhere. These are real books – not digital ones, I need to feel the paper between my fingers. When I read … More Pages On Livernois
I completed my SNL book read and Kaling still comes out on top. Bossypants was a surprising disappointment since I like Tina Fey and everyone raves about her book. Not only did I find two-thirds of it not funny, I didn’t even find it interesting. I read in a stupefied state trying to figure out … More Funny Ladies….
Ottava Via is one of the many restaurants on Michigan Avenue that makes Corktown a popular destination. It opened in 2013 but since it looks so fancy on the outside I assumed it was a high end restaurant and held off my visit until Gina insisted we check it out. I was pleasantly surprised to … More Ottava Via
It’s an end of an era. Phase two of my professional life is over and it’s been one incredible experience. This picture is from 2006. At the time I was a wide-eyed college student excited to meet Senator Levin and anxious for a picture as evidence. I never imagined that I would work for him … More Happy Friday
I’m determined to go back to serious meal planning next month. I cook most nights but there is little planning involved, we go to the grocery store far too often. and during the holiday season we’ve been too quick to go out too. The result is pounds of wasted food (i.e. money). I know this … More January Meals
When Gina told me about her new snowball budget a few years ago I thought it was ambitious but a little extreme. I’ve never had credit card debt; therefore, it was easy to consider it bad debt. Student loans and car loans on the other hand seemed perfectly fine. I needed those things and couldn’t … More Debt Freedom
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