I can't help but wonder if home will ever be the same or what sort of drama may unfold when I return to Grand Rapids. I've been playing the long distance relationship adive giver the entire time I've been here. Oddly enough, I play such a big part in everybody else's love life that I've been far too passive when it comes to my own. I figure if ( Read more... )

Life is beautiful as of late. I always imagine college with be a great time, but I never would have imagined that this world would encapsulate so many spectacular guys and gals to occupy the time. Between marching around the halls of Wesley and starting a band with Erica, lounging in front of the TV with Mark, spending general amusing moments with ( Read more... )

There’s nothing like waking up in the morning, brewing a cup of black Columbian coffee and then sipping said hot beverage to a few choice Dizzy Gillespie tunes. I don’t care how lame and/or cliché this activity may sound, it a very choice moment to spend. There’ nothing better really, besides maybe driving down a highway at seventy-five listening ( Read more... )

The leaves on the trees rustled like intrepid maracas through the dark Michigan night. The crickets chorused along with this constant beat and I had just immerged from the cabin still humid with a remainder of the rainy day. The film I had just sat down to watch was that of humanistic theme and truth be told, like many good films do, it had bogged ( Read more... )

I’ve never been in a particularly strong relationship. Never been swept with passion for another and have never been in love. Only apathetic relationships, premature and ending in shrugs have ruled my life. I’ve always considered myself a passionate person. I can speak with fervor for whatever subject I have found interest in and am emotionally ( Read more... )

It is with a heavy heart that I announce to this otherwise chipper friends' page that the great man of the Grateful Dead, Vince Welnick has passed on and gone on to join Jerry in the great jam band in the sky.

You will be deeply missed, Vince.

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Sometimes I wish I was a bolder person. Not bolder in terms of confidence or ability to interact with people, but bolder in terms of stepping it up and really letting go. I start college soon and will soon be hop-scotching my way about campus. As always, I’ll be involved, probably in far too many clubs then are good for my well being. I’ll make ( Read more... )

High school has ended. No longer will I wander the halls of Forest Hills Eastern. I won’t smile, wave and jest with a large number of people on a daily basis and an even larger number of those people have left my life for good. It hasn’t completely hit me yet. That they’re gone. That it’s gone. That glorious, angst, stupid, fun, hard, stressful, ( Read more... )