#frayedlines

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somehow, some way, in some crazy time warp it has become the last year in my twenties. with that said i wanted to write it all down. i need a moment to reflect on what the hell happened over the past decade and i don’t want to forget a moment. i mean sure there is a lot of heavy stuff, but i know without the bad i would have never had any of the good. i remember uploading photo albums…

I made a decision to move across the world a couple of years ago. I was living in New York, and I met someone in the middle of this insane city. Someone who I fell in love with and wanted to follow to any part of world. I told my employer I was going and if they had a space for me in Asia I would love to continue my work there. I went online, found a ticket on Kayak, and I was on my way. I packed…

I travel a lot. I have always traveled. When you travel as much as I do, you naturally meet new people all the time. The first question I usually get is, ‘Where are you from?’ I always answer, ‘I’m from Detroit.’ But the reality is that I’m not actually from downtown Detroit. I am from a little township in southeast Detroit that goes by the name of Waterford. It is roughly 35 square miles,…

I know, I know it is so cliché to hate Valentine’s Day. But this has nothing to do with the faux holiday that I truly do not care much about. This year it was day I officially moved into my own apartment. Last year I was on a business trip for a conference in Paris. The most romantic city in the world and it also happened to be Valentine’s Day the week I was there. I had an incredible hotel room…