After turning onto Stadium Boulevard, I headed east toward Washtenaw Avenue. It was still sunny and around 2:30 p.m. First stop would be Planet Fitness behind the Big Boy restaurant in Ypsilanti for a vigorous workout. I could already feel my heart thumping at resistance level ten on the elliptical ...
Through spring and summer of 2010 I felt uncertain and disorganized. My imagination got the better of me. After nearly dying from an unexpected heart attack on the evening of May 17, 2010 and during weeks following bypass surgery on May 18, I wondered how patients negotiate complex recovery processes. ...
I’m just a simple desk in a university town where countless stories are waiting to be told. Recently I arrived at my 72nd home at the northeast corner of Granger Avenue and Packard Street — saved from certain doom after being left on a raucous Dewey Street near Mr. Pizza ...
All of us have probably had a good day at work. Perhaps this feeling persisted for weeks or even months. Everything just seems worth the effort. My first interaction with Anne occurred during a snowy week three of the 2011 winter semester at the University of Michigan. She was concerned ...
At 6:30 a.m. on May 18, I was headed down a hallway to the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center. I had surrendered to medical technology and the expertise of hospital staff. An IV injection swept away nearly all anxiety, and I heard myself saying: “This is wild! This is wild!” ...
As is usually the custom, the chair and associate chair of the sociology department were sponsoring the annual late March lecturer’s luncheon at the Campus Inn restaurant. I left my office in the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts building on State Street with plenty of time ...
The other morning my wife, who walks to work from our house near Packard and Wells, called from her office in the North Ingalls building on Catherine Street. She mentioned that so many more sidewalks seem unshoveled this year. And it’s not that walks aren’t cleared for one or two ...
When Rush Limbaugh entered a Hawaiian hospital on December 30th suffering from severe chest pains I wondered how this event might affect him. Death is hard for anyone to contemplate. After extensive tests proved negative I thought our premier pundit might have a change of heart regarding the possibility of ...
On Dec. 13, neighbors in and around Woodlawn Avenue, Wells Street, and Forest Avenue - just off Packard Street near Granger Avenue - gathered at the home of Christa and John Williams. The event was partly a holiday celebration, but also a lively, informal opportunity to see their newly completed ...
Like all universities, the University of Michigan has always enrolled students who are first in their families to attend college. Today many first-generation students are undergraduates (approximately ten percent or 2500 students), while others study in graduate programs and various professional schools. Most find themselves in a place that every ...
Like thousands of other Ann Arborites I attended last month’s Michigan/Ohio State Big House classic. My ears still ring from the amazing jet fly-over. I sat with a good friend - an OSU alum - near the south scoreboard (Row 95) where we had a bird’s eye view - inside ...
The price of running Ann Arbor's Skyline High School in its first year? Just over $2.5 million. That’s well within the range school officials established for the costs as the school was being built, Superintendent Todd Roberts said. That figure was included in the audit of the district’s 2008-09 budget. ...
Social rituals have been practiced for thousands of years and remain important as 21st century families and neighborhoods change over time. Recently I witnessed a young lady’s rite of passage here in Burns Park on Wells Street between Packard and Forest. Similar rites regularly occur around Ann Arbor as young ...
I usually stop by the Packard and Stadium Circle K gas station to fill’er up and get some essential food items. Now and then I’ll even pick up two Hostess Snowballs - one red and the other white, of course. Intellectually I know it’s very bad to buy and eat ...
On Saturday morning (9/16) I was making my usual cup of coffee, enjoying expected and helpful advice from the Car Guys on NPR and watching fellow Wolverine fans flood down Wells Street to the Delaware State game. Hearing a knocking sound at the front of the house I opened the ...
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