Nora Reed Heineman-Fleck

This is one of those stories that you have to prefix with “Everyone is okay. Well, Joaquin has a black eye. But he's been putting frozen blueberries on it, and I think he's alright.”

It's late on Thursday, though it's technically early on Friday. I've got Friday off, and it's one of the last days that Kelsey's in town, so we've got a little crowd together-- five of us, buddies from high school. Kelsey, Devin, Joaquin, Zach, and me.

We've… Continue

I'm 20.

I was born in 1988. I remember when Clinton was elected in 1992 because my mother told me that it was the first time in her life she's voted for a presidential candidate who won.

I didn't have any political awareness until late elementary school, when we had a model United Nations, and even then the only issues I knew anything about were international-- we talked about nuclear issues worldwide, Tibet, and the Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

I didn't get any awareness of national politics unt… Continue

I found a balloon on my ride home today!

It was really windy, and I was scooting home from work on Tijeras, right before it becomes MLK, and this balloon got swept up by a gust of wind and flew directly in front of my scooter. It was too good to resist-- I reached out and caught it!

I… Continue

It's eleven-thirty and we're out on the scooter*, me and my friend Kit, going about 25 on Rio Grande, going under the freeway, headed home and to bed. It's one of those gorgeous… Continue

I just saw the Google Street View car in my neighborhood driving between Silver and Central on Stanford. If you want to get yourself doing something on Google Street View, get into that neighborhood now.