My Ford
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My Ford is going home for minor repairs. So for the next three weeks, I’m rockin’ out with a minivan with Stow-N-Go seating. That is all.
Potential
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During my last semester in Notre Dame’s MBA program, I took a class called Community Partners, and my team of friends and I were paired with the autism center in South Bend, Indiana. We were tasked with developing a marketing communications plan to increase awareness for the Center for Autism in the Michiana area (man, I kind of miss saying Michiana) and with awareness, increased volunteer and monetary support. First, I needed to do research because I knew next to nothing about autism.
So, what is autism? Autism is a life-long developmental disability that affects a person’s ability to process sensory info and causes difficulties in developing communication skills, interpreting social relationships, and learning appropriate ways to relate to people, objects and events. Learn more here.
As thanks for our volunteer work, Martha McMillian, an active participant in the LOGAN Center (a community center that serves people with developmental disabilities and also operates the autism center), painted a watercolor of the Notre Dame campus for each of us. I love it, and it reminds me that no matter what our individual abilities or disabilities are, the talents we’ve perfected or the imperfections we acknowledge, or even our failed attempts (see: elementary school wrestling), each of us has the potential to make a unique contribution to the world of those around us. In big ways. In small ways. And ways that are uniquely yours.
O Chicago
O Chicago, I’ve missed you (your good traits, anyway). It’s fun that I can navigate Chicago like a local, but on this third trip back, it still feels odd to be a visitor in a metro I once called home. In the summer of 2006, I lived across from the Chicago Theatre and would see the marquee’s neon lights dance off my window to announce the latest show. Today was a reunion of social media peers and friends, and we went whole hog for a dinner feast of roast beast at Frontier in West Town.
Rear Window
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Quite literally, this is the view of a rear window of my apartment building unit.
Note: I am a week behind on this blog, but I’ve still been keeping up the daily photo. Watch for a stream of posts in the coming days!
Eat Street
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Eat Street is a commercial district in Minneapolis, formed in the late 1990s to promote the international variety of restaurants along Nicollet Avenue South within three blocks of 26th Street.
Fireworks
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Midtown Greenway
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It was great to be back in the saddle. A buddy and I hit the bike paths this morning in Minneapolis, named the #2 bike friendly city in Bicycling‘s July 2012 magazine. We traced several of my familiar running routes, though the Midtown Greenway was a new connector between Lake Calhoun and West River Parkway.
For readers in the Twin Cities, what bike paths should I ride next?
Night Blinds Saxman
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The cool jazzman at the window’s edge belies the frenzy within. Aside from my upcoming biggest purchase ever, my weekdays and weeknights are busy in a way that makes my Chicago life seem so, well, suburban. True, I lived in the Chicago suburbs, but that’s not the point! I was busy then, too. It’s bad enough that I tend to schedule spontaneity. But, I’ve now decided to schedule sanity time.
Four-in-Hand
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I have to wear a tie Monday through Thursday at work. Dress code, you know. Because the tie is one of only a few ways that guys can show some personality at the office, I own several of them. These are just the striped ties. I learned that I own 44, or 11 weeks worth of ties. Shocking, I know.
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