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Robert Bruce Adams

Sep 28, 20174 min read

The River Sings Its Song

"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau "Well, then what is it?"...

Robert Bruce Adams

Sep 23, 20172 min read

Here's To Baby Boys

Henry Anderson Adams Born September 13, 2017 How cool is that! THE MAGIC OF TECHNOLOGY WAS EVIDENCED this week when I received a text...

Robert Bruce Adams

Sep 19, 20172 min read

Seedheads and Sunlight

ORNAMENTAL GRASSES ARE A FAVORITE OF MINE. I became fond of them in the 1990s as their popularity soared in the U.S. and I set out to...

Robert Bruce Adams

Sep 17, 20177 min read

Things That Go Bump

MY FIRST DAY AT ALBION COLLEGE was a sunny Sunday afternoon in the late summer of 1967. My parents were helping me get settled in my...

Robert Bruce Adams

Sep 14, 20171 min read

My Secret Spot

I HAVE DISCOVERED OVER THE YEARS that most of us have a secret spot to which we are especially attracted. It could be a fishing hole...

Robert Bruce Adams

Sep 12, 20174 min read

The White Tiger

(Legacy Essays, 2017) MY YOUNGEST SON DAVE AND I STUMBLED upon a traveling carnival in the harbor town of Frankfort. It was a Thursday...

Robert Bruce Adams

Sep 5, 20173 min read

Beef Goulash

YOU MIGHT RECALL THE LUNCHROOM LADIES that prepared your meals back in junior high and high school. A couple decades ago I remember these...

Robert Bruce Adams

Aug 30, 20171 min read

Michigan Master Gardener

Late summer's garden beauties. Goldenrod, Brown-eyed Susan's, white Phlox, petunia, potato vine and a hidden dahlia. On my porch...