Justin Fenwick

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Comparing Online vs. Offline

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅

Tonight was a good night of work at the theater. It all went by quickly. This was due to jovial conversation, joking, and comradeship. Just fun. The tips were good and I didn’t seem to have much on my mind. When I got home, of course after going out for a beer, stress via my [...]

Defining Community Partnerships: A Foundation for Any Community Relationship

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ June 12, 2009 ⋅

This is part 1 in a series on community partnerships…This series came out of my two years of service with Michigan Campus Compact at Eastern Michigan University as an AmeriCorps*VISTA. To use the word partnership too casually does harm to the same relationships we say we are building. I worked with many other VISTAs doing [...]

Building your own glass ceiling

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ August 9, 2008 ⋅

To overwhelm yourself, is to be human. I don’t think any of us are free of that. I think it is most often self-created, which is why it’s probably the most intimidating foe. Built with words of false perception, sometimes it feels like reality. Viewing it this way makes it seems much more like a [...]

Bound

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ July 31, 2008 ⋅

One hill, one loose bike lock chain, I flew, and landed. I wonder sometimes if the most normal of trouble is the most awesome. Ever relish the most normal of fights? of days? Things can get so out of control sometimes that maybe a simple mistake or basic rough spot can bring a sense of [...]

A Chinese cookie fortune frees me from life’s maze

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ March 4, 2008 ⋅

“You emerge victoriously from the maze you’ve been traveling in.” Life sure does feel like a maze, does it not? Wandering looking for the right direction, knowing at any moment we might walk right into a wall. The worst part is that we are often doomed to back-track. At best, we find ourselves busting through [...]