I’M INTO MY FALL clean-up of my living room in my loft. It has been a while since I spent time on this endeavor. My corner under the...

COOLER WEATHER has arrived in northwest Michigan. It was predicted, but it has been a bone-chilling event for me. My sweatshirt sleeves...

HERE IT IS OCTOBER, a month that features blue skies and colorful leaves; and always a few days that introduce us to the notion that big...

CONSUMING MORE FRUIT is a newer approach for me. With my more watchful diet and increasing awareness of healthier choices, fresh and...

THE WINTER SQUASHES ARE IN FULL DISPLAY here in mid-September at the various markets in northern Michigan. Over the years, I have enjoyed...

THE FIRST TIME I SAW GLEN LAKE an impression was etched in my memory and has been with me for a lifetime. It was early August 1953; I was...

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN this morning after I planted mums at the container at Champion Hill Golf Course https://www.championhill.com/. My...

ALMOST EVERY YEAR, as local tomatoes come to market, I make a late summer marinara sauce that I place in my freezer that I use through...

IT’S BEEN 60 YEARS SINCE I last read Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I remember small bits about the book, but it is turning...

IT TOOK AN ARTICLE IN THE WSJ to perk my curiosity about culinary uses for wild Staghorn Sumac. I have never used the spice but was...

MY GRANDFATHER WAS A CORPORATE LAWYER who worked for Domino Sugar for over thirty years ending his career as vice chairman of the...

THIS PHOTO OF MY YOUNGEST SON and his family makes me smile. Thankfully he got someone to snap a photo over in Wisconsin picking...

OFTEN I USE THE SENSE OF SMELL to help unearth a particular setting in my writing. It seems to help stimulate my recall and adds to the...

VERY DRY CONDITIONS CONTINUE here in northern Michigan at the beginning of July. Over the years I’ve watched the weather quite faithfully...

A DEEPER APPRECIATION OF OUR UNIVERSE came to me the other morning quite by surprise. I was driving my car heading to the golf course and...

IT IS FATHER’S DAY WEEK. As I expected, morning TV shows are featuring chubby middle-aged men in flowered shirts donning rubberized...

IT’S BEEN TEN YEARS since I published my memoirs. My overriding motivation back then was figuring out how to turn years of storytelling...

I’VE BEEN HELPING MY GIRLFRIEND plant her annual spring garden. This past week we became so excited to see ferns emerging from last...

ASPARAGUS ARE POPPING THROUGH THE GROUND this week in NW Michigan. Our region has several farms that are devoted to these springtime...

I’M HEADING INTO MY MID-SEVENTIES and these days I often reflect on what a wonderful woman my mother was, likely refreshed in early May...