It’s been a while since the King of Rock and Roll was spotted at a Kalamazoo Burger King in August 1988, on the 11th anniversary of…
Note: My favorite novelist, Elmore Leonard, passed away on August 20, 2013, weeks after he suffered a stroke. I am so glad I didn’t off…
A favorite little serving dish we bought at an art fair many years ago is dark green, made of thick clay, and shaped like a leaf…
With Paige away at college in Ithaca, New York, we broke with our tradition of a Thanksgiving dinner at home and took our turkey and…
Here’s a nifty gift idea for those who think the Great Lakes State is cool: MI-Ice Cube Trays that freeze water in the shape of Michigan—both the…
No one ever went hungry at Ellen Lahti’s house or diner. My mom’s mom grew up in the Upper Peninsula but moved to Detroit where…
Oh how I’d like to be at the bar of Roma Cafe, sipping a Manhattan and listening to the walls talk. Roma, in Detroit’s Eastern Market, is…
Detroit has no shortage of good burger joints but there’s always room for one more—especially when it heats up an empty building on a corner…
It looks like something out of the west…the wide open spaces, the eerie landscape. But it’s the world’s largest limestone quarry, located near the Tip…
