Several days ago I was approached by a young woman named Megan Maurer, asking if she could interview me for her master’s thesis. I agreed on one condition. I told her that, for every question she asked me, I’d ask one of my own. What follows are her responses to my questions. MARK: As I […]
Posted in Environment, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged AAATA, AmeriCorps, Beezy's, civic engagement, civic life, Columbus, community gardens, cultural anthropology, Deja Vu, dissertations, Dos Hermanos, environmentalism, FernGully, gardening, gateway drugs, graduate school, Growing Hope, immigration interview, Indian restaurants, Kenyon, Kenyon Lords and Ladies, local food, Megan Maurer, More Buses, Ohio, Philander Chase, Portland, public space, race, research, social justice, Sustainability, tamales, urban gardening, Ypsi immigration interview |
By Mark | December 1, 2013
Thanks to my network of well-compensated spies, I was just recently tipped off to the existence of today’s interview subject, Sarah Zawacki. Sadly, our interview had already concluded when it was brought to my attention that she shared her home with a domesticated hedgehog by the name of Mabel (seen below), so I didn’t get […]
Posted in History, Local Business, Michigan, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Tagged Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, Carole Lombard, Clara Bow, Congdon's Ace Hardware, conspiracy theories, Deja Vu, Depot Town, farmers market, hedgehogs, immigration interview, IT, It Happened One Night, Lillian Gish, living where you work, Martha Washington Theater, My Man Godfrey, Myrna Loy, passenger rail, public libraries, public safety officer, Sarah Zawacki, The Night of the Hunter, The Thin Man, Thompson Block, unusual pets, walkability, water, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti Downtown Library, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums |
By Mark | September 19, 2013
A few days ago I was introduced to a young woman by the name of Heidi Jugenitz. She, I’d been told by a mutual friend, was new in town, and, having read my blog, wanted to ask me a few questions. We talked briefly, and I asked if I could follow up with a few […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged 9/11, Affordable Care Act, Africa, anxiety, austerity, big banks, Boxcar Children, Burkina Faso, Carthage College, Chicago, children's literature, Cote d'Ivoire, Cross Street Station, depression, Detroit Metro Airport, DTW, Eagle Scout, economic justice, Ecuador, Elijah McCoy, exercise, fear, financial crisis, financial reform, George Bush, health insurance, Heidi Jugenitz, human rights, Hurricane Katrina, hypersensitivity, income inequality, injustice, international aid, international travel, Kentucky, Linette, Masters of Public Administration, mental health, Nancy Drew, neurosis, New Orleans, Obama, Obamacare, OCD, panic disorder, pop-up retail, poverty, prejudice, public education, public health, racism, Rwanda, Sahel, segregation, Shadow Art Fair, sleep, Tanzania, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tulane University, University of Michgan, Vietnam, Vitamin D, vitamins, water, Water Street, Winsor McCay, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Freighthouse |
By Mark | September 6, 2013
I was contacted a few days ago by a recent immigrant to Ypsilanti by the name of Rob Noonan. Rob and his wife, Rose, just moved here from Australia to open a traditional Chinese medicine clinic… Here’s Rob’s official immigration interview. MARK: Why Ypsi of all places? We don’t get a lot of immigrants from […]
Posted in Ypsilanti | Tagged acupuncture, alternative health, alternative medicine, Australia, Chinese food, Chinese medicine, Colin Hay, Crocodile Dundee II, Doug Skinner, drinking songs, flip flops, immigration interview, INXS, Ireland, Irish, Jackson, knives, local business, Mad Max, making friends on the internet, Mel Gibson, Men at Work, metaphysics, Michael Hutchence, Neighbours, Nick Cave, prawns, prison colonies, Rose Noonan, sausages, Shabooh Shoobah, Shadow Art Fair, shrimp, snags, taxes, the outback, thongs, vegemite, Victoria University, visas, Ypsi immigration interview |
A few months ago, when I aggregated all of the Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, I told myself that I’d eventually do the same thing with all of the Ypsi Immigration Interviews that I’d conducted over the past few years. Well, I finally got around to it this evening… Enjoy. And do let me know whenever anyone […]
