28: First Dispatches from Ypsilanti

Hello from grad school. Hello from my blue house in the midwest.

I’m sitting on my couch in Ypsilanti, Michigan – a place I had never been just 2 weeks ago. Now, I live in a blue house in a quiet neighborhood with a willow tree in the backyard and squirrels that are underlined in a copper red along their bellies. I began graduate school just over one week ago, and now it’s time to work in a way I never thought I woul…