The Global Dig

  Weekly Recap This week was filled with family adventures, improv, and a few preparations for the week ahead. One of the highlights was tak...

  This past week felt a bit like a roller coaster. My energy levels seemed to swing back and forth between excitement and exhaustion, but th...

  The ride began with a conversation that should have shocked me more than it did. My passenger spoke openly about his criminal history. Not...

  The playlist was bothering her. Not in a dramatic way, but in the way that small things bother people who spend their days paying attentio...

This week was busy with school activities, swimming, improv, and summer planning. Last Wednesday, my sons school, Randolph Elementary held i...

  The Art of Listening in Motion Recently I found myself thinking about improv theatre while driving. Not because I was on stage. But becaus...

  Vision is a strange thing. You don’t always realize what you’re seeing clearly and what you’re not until someone points it out. That’s how...

It was a week of rideshare driving, time at the indoor park (including a brief, slightly terrifying zipline moment), the Cinco de Mayo parad...

  I picked up a passenger while driving rideshare, and he turned out to be from my building since I was parked outside waiting for a ride. W...

  I picked up my Uber passenger near   Lake Minnetonka , the kind of place where the houses sit so close to the water it almost feels like y...

  Two IRS Employees and a Downtown Pickup, Skyscrapers Overhead, Froot Loops Underfoot I picked them up downtown—two IRS tax employees in su...

  Today I picked up a passenger and we started talking about what counts as high-adrenaline—what people actually do versus what they imagine...

The Wizard of Oz , directed by Rick Dildine, is currently playing at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis on the UnitedHealth Group...

 The program at Luminary Arts Center on Saturday, April 19 at 2 p.m. brings together a range of choreographic voices, including works by Sha...

  This week felt like a sprint, one thing after another, no real gaps in between. Earlier in the week I volunteered at Peace House, a soup k...

I had a rideshare. Liner who told me about her daughter  who had been in the military overseas during the war. She said there was an inciden...

  The First Thing I Said Was “I’m Really Anxious”: My First Day Volunteering at Peace House Walking into Peace House in South Minneapolis, I...