Good for you, Michigan!

As the company has grown from a single store to a regional chain, the need for a new name became evident amidst growing concerns over the use of the word "beaner" as a disparaging term against Hispanic Americans.


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I suppose things can never stay the same. And sometimes the change that we long for is reached only through uncomfortable, uneasy steps ( Read more... )

Autoethnography is an established, but still emergent, form of qualitative research. Described by Ellis and Bochner (2000) it is:

an autobiographical genre of writing and research that displays multiple layers of consciousness, connecting the personal to the cultural. Back and forth autoethnographers gaze, first through an ethnographic wide-angle ( Read more... )

Summer is over!  For better or for worse, I can now move on from summer and into fall:
apple picking
wicker
cotton
scarves
school buses
boots!
liberated leaves
the monochrome of green vegetation is over
dramatic, dark clouds
elementary memories
dark mornings
pies
bread baking
pumpkins
gourds
squash

The boss-man is away in China picking up his new five year old son ( Read more... )

I think I've finally mastered the art of being frustrated.  Everywhere I turn I'm dissatisfied and irritated.  My body aches from movement and crankiness ( Read more... )

Summer is on her way out the door.  One good thing about living here in the upper midwest are the seasons.  Granted, winter is the longest and harshest of the seasons, naturally, but this year fall will more than make up for all the snow and ice.  It's cooler in the mornings now, and the sun is weaker as it takes its time rising above us.  As of ( Read more... )

My fantasy lately: a road trip.  A road trip West ( Read more... )

At one point during my childhood, I saw a movie that has served as basis for a fantasy of mine.  I don't remember the name of the movie, or the plot, and in fact it may have been a tv show.  It's either Doc Hollywood, Field of Dreams or a Quantum Leap episode.  Perhaps it's a conglommeration of all three.  My fantasy includes a two story house, ( Read more... )

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