| Well, after months of anticipation I arrived in Denver this afternoon for the Democratic National Convention. I'm going to do my best to blog short updates about what is going on here at the Convention over the next several days. I'll confess that I'm already pretty tired and am going to need to do some recharging tonight. As many of you may know, this past week was Welcome Week at Michigan State University. This is a busy and important time for the East Lansing community. In addition to One Book One Community and other welcome events, I decided to do a ride-along with the East Lansing Police Department on Friday night. It was a powerful learning experience that I'll need to write about some other time. Suffice to say that I was impressed with the professionalism of the men and women I spent the shift with. The problem is that I was so impressed, rather than end my ride along at midnight as I had planned, I stayed until 6:00 a.m. Needless the say that left me packing for Denver frantically at six, in order to get out the door by 8:30 a.m. and to Detroit to catch my flight by noon. It's been a long journey, but I'm thrilled to be here now. Stayed tuned for future Convention updates! Nathan Triplett |
