March 2012 - Dallin Malmgren

Dallin Malmgren holds roses in 2004.

Spring Break…

…is my third favorite hol­i­day of the whole year. It is like a flota­tion device thrown to you just as you’re about to go under in the sea of the sec­ond semes­ter. I don’t care any­thing about cal­en­dar dates—spring offi­cial­ly begins on the first day of Spring Break. The air smells dif­fer­ent on that first […]

Close-up of cactus plant

The Out-of-Towner…

I missed a blog entry last weekend—I’m try­ing to do one every Sun­day.  I have enough self-aware­­ness to know I’ll miss a few here and there (and to not beat myself up about it—guilt has nev­er been a strong moti­va­tor for me).  I’m blam­ing the out-of-town­er for last week­end. Every year I take my tennis […]