I was recently listening to a ted talk by Jeff Speck and he stated that there are only four necessities to make a city walkable. Comfort, reason, safety, and interest. And when I think back about my trip to Japan last summer, I realized that a lot of these concepts are present. In Japan, walking was my first choice, but in the suburbs of the United States it's not even an option. Comfort: Taken from my trip to Japan Everything is near anything, and that makes the walk from

Summer air, cicadas buzzing, hot stones, a thousand rolly pollies. I sit outside my cousin's driveway, the tip of my finger gently poking the shell of an armadillidiidae, its antennae flare, body retracting to shell in the split of a second. Small and curious, my five-year-old eyes wonder; it’s as if a mini hurricane spins through the bug with each rotation, rolling, rolling, boom, as it hits the garage door. Laying down on the heated concrete, watching the bug climb back up,