Once in a while (maybe twice a year) I have a taste for onion rings, but last week when the mood hit I didn’t have…
I’m a born eavesdropper. A lot of people do it but when you’re a writer, it’s part of the job description. Do you know how…
The name Liberty Hyde Bailey is familiar to those with green thumbs, but “America’s Father of Modern Horticulture” may become more of a household name through…
A month after we relocated from the 313 to Blue Skies, our place in the Upper Peninsula, we had our first visitor. Son Graham announced…
Sifting through my stack of cookbooks I came across a little gem from the kids’ days at Our Lady Star of the Sea School in…
Bob is a man of a bear and Len Bear is, well, a bear of a man. Bob & Bear looks at their lives in…
Snowmobiling is as familiar a sport to me as sky-diving. There was a time when I wanted to try both. A mid-winter heat wave cancelled my first…
Cold enough for you? Imagine working on the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw WAGB-83 as she and her crew cut through the frozen waters of…
The temperature is dropping—it is November, after all—snow is heading our way and blustery winds are rearranging the neat piles of leaves our neighbors raked…
