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An Open Letter to Scary Things
My grandma and grandpa in Michigan had an old basement from the early 1970s with classic wood paneling. There was a make-shift beauty...
Evan Hall
Nov 1, 20213 min read
Uncompromising Kindness or Lack Thereof: How I Ruined One of My Surgeries and What We Can Learn (3)
How do we learn from our mistakes? Do we diligently take note of the situation and deeply analyze our decisions to create a rapport of...
Evan Hall
Sep 7, 20213 min read
Uncompromising Kindness or Lack Thereof: How I Ruined One of My Surgeries and What We Can Learn (2)
The next day, a Wednesday, I slept in only an hour more than usual, still earlier than most people who went to school. I knew I needed...
Evan Hall
Aug 30, 20214 min read
Uncompromising Kindness or Lack Thereof: How I Ruined One of My Surgeries and What We Can Learn (1)
I am unsure where to start in this story. I think I will start with how this story ends: I compromised my surgery because I had an...
Evan Hall
Aug 23, 20215 min read
Disability Culture at U of M
Disability Culture @ U-M was one of the first organizations to inspire this blog. Prior to attending some of the meetings of Disability...
Evan Hall
Aug 16, 202110 min read
‘Bob’bing for Apples
For me, vacationing is a bittersweet span of several days or weeks. There is a lot of thought that goes into mentally and physically...
Evan Hall
Jul 26, 20213 min read
Trapped in the Portal
Instagram. Doordash. NPR. All of these examples are apps one can download on their phone. They have different, perhaps purposeful...
Evan Hall
Jul 19, 20213 min read
My health should not scare you.
Hearing Loss. Chronic Illness. Hearing Impairment. Crohn’s Disease. Although medically necessary (and even then), terminology surrounding...
Evan Hall
Jul 12, 20213 min read
Fixation on Fixing
I find there is beauty in choice, not because of the answer given, but because of the questions asked. One such question, which I admit...
Evan Hall
Jul 6, 20213 min read
Drawing Blood with a Crayon
This post talks about blood, so please take the time you may need to approach reading this article! In childhood, the color red surfaces...
Evan Hall
Jun 28, 20213 min read
Coming out, twice.
I sat in the passenger seat of my mom’s aging blue Aspen on my 16th birthday in the parking lot of a Baptist Church our family, or at...
Evan Hall
Jun 21, 20214 min read
A Tale of Two Abilities
No one understands me, no one gets it, no one looks like me, no one will accept me, no one will love me, and the death of a thousand...
Evan Hall
Jun 14, 20214 min read
How to describe silence
A compelling description of silence comes from Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece “Invisible Man”: “‘Then silence, The lonesome hole banked with...
Evan Hall
Jun 7, 20214 min read
"I am a musician" - The Aftermath
In the last two blog posts, I spun the yarn of my story of entering and leaving music school, and how those decisions teetered on my...
Evan Hall
Jun 1, 20213 min read
"I am a musician" - The Foreground
“let our possessions be undone / in one single alarming destruction, / allowing things to sound / like a river / and let the sea / with...
Evan Hall
May 24, 20214 min read
"I am a musician" - The Background
“this / very moment, it is carrying / sand, it is eating / from our hands, / grab it, / let it not slip away, / let it not lose its...
Evan Hall
May 17, 20213 min read
Eating Cereal With a Fork
I first heard about Spoon Theory at an MBLGTACC (Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference) keynote speaker...
Evan Hall
May 10, 20215 min read
The Name in and of Itself
“Growing up, I knew the price of milk in dollar signs and stomachaches”. “I live with a ringing in my ear like a doorbell going...
Evan Hall
May 3, 20214 min read
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