Meditations on Future Endeavors

I've been thinking lately about going back to school - question is, MBA or Master's of Project Management or maybe UDM's Master's of Community Development? How do you choose what you want to be when you grow up? I feel like I should know by now - aren't you supposed to have this all figured out by the time you turn 28? Maybe it's 30? There are so many things I want to do before I turn 30 - I only have two years! Ahh! But then, am I really worried? It's not like the world ends at 30...or that life ends at 30...maybe 30 IS the new 20...hmmmm.

Off to ponder life's lessons whilst watching Project Runway - maybe it will inspire something creative...

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Insecurities

I notice that it's been an obscene amount of time since I have blogged in this space. I'm not really sure why that is - except that I kind of do know...and it's silly.

I psyche myself out about blogging.

Silly, right? I read so many amazing blogs from people whose lives seem so incredibly more interesting than my own that I feel inadequate. Even though I know that I'm the only one reading this blog, I feel that every post needs to contain some significant pearl of wisdom or witty story so when I am unable to think of a topic that fits this "requirement" I feel it's not worthy of time in the blog and thus I do not write. Like I said, silly. This so goes against the very idea of a blog. And yet, I cannot seem to rid myself of this delusion.

I have started Twittering. A lot. I find it to be quite addictive. I also think that maybe Twitter will work as a sort of antibiotic for my blogging insecurities. If I can Tweet several lines of text per day perhaps I can build up to a blog post every few days? Or am I kidding myself?

Why do I find my life so uninteresting? I'm not dissatisfied with my life, per se. Of course there are things that I wish I did or could do, but who doesn't? I don't hate my life - I'm pretty content most of the time. Sure I wish I could just travel around the world for a living. Sure I wish I could just take pictures and eat and drink with the locals and get paid to do this full time. But I do enjoy my job most of the time. I love my dog and my turtle which I couldn't have if I lived out of a suitcase. I like my house although I sometimes wish I lived in some modern loft (or Mies townhouse in Lafayette Park, sigh) with a fabulous view of a skyline. I think I just have the grass is greener syndrome - we all want what someone else has...that's life. I have a good thing going here, I really do.

I just need to work on this blogging thing. Maybe if I actually wrote about what's going on in my life, I would find it's not that boring. Or maybe it is but at least I'd be doing something!

Mid-year Resolution: Blog, damn it!

Riverwalk (c) MyrtleArt Photography

Dearborn by Bicycle

Magnolia Blossoms outside the Dearborn Library
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Being that Saturday was such a lovely, sunny, gorgeous day, it seemed a shame not to take the Schwinn out for a spin. Of course the camera came as well and this is the result - a tour de force of Dearborn on a sunny, pre-summer day:

Sacred Heart Catholic Church
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Ford Historic Homes District | Nona Street
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Ford Historic Home
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Ford Historic Homes
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Dearborn Public Library | Bryant Branch
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A Tiskit, A Tasket, a Bicycle Basket!

Bicycle as art...or spring has sprung! In honor of the weather finally warming up (albeit in fits and starts), I brought the Schwinn out for a little photo shoot. I really think she needs a name...hmmm...

New Tires, New Basket, Ready to Ride!


Made in Chicago but she's all Detroit Class now!

The bell is from Oldenburg, Germany where biking is a way of life

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Sweet Ride...

The weather has been gorgeous lately (minus today) and after getting my morning skinny vanilla latte at Stella I keep running into this adorable bike locked up outside of the Fisher Building.
It's so happy and carefree and just makes my day!

Art Deco in the Twin Cities

After a week full of more political hot air, it was so refreshing to see this recently renovated gem emerge from the Twin Cities courtesy of STIR magazine.

Rising 447 feet above Minneapolis since 1929, the Forshay Tower was recently purchased and renovated by the Starwood Hotels & Resorts folk. A historic site designated by the US National Parks Service, Starwood did an amazing job of integrating gorgeous 1920's details such as this plaster ceiling:

with the sleek and contemporary look that we all have come to cherish in a Starwood property.

I love the use of the slate and khaki neutral palatte with punches of fushia and blue that seems so Art Deco yet very posh. This lounge is just begging me to meet up with the girls for martinis and stilettos.

Wonder if there are any conferences in Minnesota coming up???

Photos courtesy of Sherwin Williams "Stir"

Old Tires Die Hard

I haven't ridden my new(old) bike in a while - really I think I've ridden it only twice since buying it in July - and being as it's a relatively nice evening and Tim was playing video games, I thought I'd take the Schwinn out and go for a ride. Apparently although the gods of weather were giving me a reprieve from the muggy, cloudy, slightly rainy day, the bicycle gods decided that Schwinn tires circa 1973 should not hold air and thus prevent me from my joyfully anticipated ride. To be fair, the tires were looking a little tired when I picked up the bike and the Craigslist guy did say they were a bit old and offer to sell me new tires. Being stubborn however, I declined saying "I'm sure they'll be fine!" Got two rides on the "fine" tires. Brilliant.

As anyone who knows me at all will tell you, I'm a HUGE advocate of Detroit and supporting local business so I'm really excited to have recently discovered (although have yet to visit) Wheelhouse Detroit on the Riverwalk. Wheelhouse is a rather new bicycle rental, repair and retail shop located on the Riverwalk downtown. I love that the whole country seems to be re-discovering bicycling (I know the Europeans have done it forever and are shaking their heads in amazement and this "new movement" in America but hey, at least we're on the boat - late, but on the boat!).

My dream is to one day be able to either ride my bike to work or at least ride my bike to the train station and take a commuter train (hopefully coming soon) to work. Driving is so stressful, not to mention the evils to the environment and I just think that biking and mass transit are so much lovelier options.

Tomorrow we're off to the Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City for the long weekend and to celebrate out 2 year anniversary...

Dearborn Homecoming Fireworks (c) MyrtleArt Photography