There are a lot of awesome things about Minneapolis in the summer. Food trucks are definitely one of them. I put food trucks and taprooms in the same category: they’re both AWESOME and delicious, and recently seemed to appear out of no where, then explode in popularity. I’m lucky enough to work in Downtown Minneapolis, … More Food Truck Favorites
“In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. The end of my time living in a college town is … More All Good Things Come to an End
“This time I’m ready to run. Wherever you are is the place I belong, ’cause I wanna be free, and I wanna be young. I will never look back, now I’m ready to run.” I have never been one to obsess about celebrities. It takes me a while to determine my celebrity crush, and I never really … More Best Night Ever
“When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.”– Ernest Hemingway. Growing up in the city, the suburbs seemed like such a foreign, mystical place. In my mind, Minnetonka was like Eagleton from Parks and Recreation, or Wisteria Lane from Desperate Housewives. A place that seemed too extravagant to be real. People … More Happy Place: A City Girl’s Perspective on the Suburbs
“As we go on, we remember all the times we had together. And as our lives change, come whatever, we will still be friends forever.” I graduated from college. That’s still an unbelievable thing to say. It seems like just yesterday I was a scared, little 18 year old moving into N489 Territorial Hall (T-Hall if … More Commencement Craziness
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” -Pascal Mercier
“You know, as we come to the end of this phase of our life, we find ourselves trying to remember the good times and trying to forget the bad times, and we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry, thinking, ‘What am I gonna do? Where am I gonna be in ten … More The Post I Never Wanted to Write
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list”
“Actually, the best gift you could have ever given her was a lifetime of adventures” -Lewis Carroll
“As you move through this life, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life and travel leave marks on you” -Anthony Bourdain September 5th marked one year since I boarded a plane and began the adventure of a lifetime. As I look back, there’s so much I wish I could experience all over again, … More One Year Later
Adventures of Allison 