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Winding Path to Toledo

Victor is a Toledoan who works as a data scientist at the University of Michigan. He is also a human and an American. He enjoys life and lives in South Toledo with his wife and daughter.

Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry: #6

It’s happening again. Even as we speak, elsewhere—in a college dorm, maybe, or some recess of the internet—a word is changing. Just as “cool” evolved in African-American...

Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry: #5

Metaphor helps us see whatever we look at by making us imagine it as something else.

Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry: #4

What makes poetry poetry? Ask that question of a dozen poets, scholars, or readers and you’ll get as many different answers, maybe more. Some...

Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry: #3

“I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either—at least, not until I learned to stop worrying...

Made in Toledo: From Bicycles to Automotives

🏭🚲 Did you know that the bicycle has a long history right in our midst in picturesque Northwest Ohio? Before Toledo's industrial heyday designing and...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Toledo Legacy

While Martin Luther King, Jr. only visited Toledo once, his name, influence and image remain in this city as remnants of the values he...

Boating down…Water Street?

❄ Think it’s bitter cold? Well, just imagine if flooding also came with our already icy roads. As rivers do, the powerful Maumee River...

Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry: #2

This is a love story. This is the story that led me here, writing to you about how and why I fell in love with...

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