Still Shopping in My Closet
As I am a confirmed shopper continually looking for retail therapy, I am also perusing my closet...
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As I am a confirmed shopper continually looking for retail therapy, I am also perusing my closet...
Read MoreDec 11, 2021 |
My favorite place, Ann Arbor, my grandparents’ house. I go once or twice a year, my whole life.I imagine the smell of the turkey on Thanksgiving Day, prepared by grandma. I imagine the smell of grandpa’s old books,...
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This summer the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor family, just lost one of its greats: the...
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Mickey Rooney was marred eight times. He quipped, “Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.”His third wife, the model and actress Martha...
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At the Sonic Lunch Concert SeriesElla Riot playing one day, a band of five, all in their twenties, doing their thing, electro, techno, funk, fusion, rock– don’t know exactly what to call it– and people of all...
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Like many Ann Arborites, I was frustrated this winter in securing an appointment to get a COVID-19...
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After a trip to the basement to store my summer clothes, I realized that most of them had not even...
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She’s beautiful, our Yankee Lady.Her wings huge and wide and low,Chrome that shines on a...
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Inspired by Kathleen Perry and written by Nancy DrubelLet me first say that we’re PRO dog...
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What is it likeA day in a maskAt a coffeeShop in this crisis?We fill our dayWith daily tasks...
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What do people ponder in this pandemic?We are sharing in this status of social distancing.Yet what...
Read MoreOct 29, 2019 |
Mid-morning dawns slow over arbored lawns,Where collegiate airs mix with quirky town affairs.Now traverse Washington & State, downtown cosmopolitan and quaint;Breath stilled at the view long west ‘cross...
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When my family moved to the new Westaire Terrace subdivision near Haisley School in 1958,...
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The Chaperone, a new historical drama from the creators of Downton Abbey, opens Friday in Ann...
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For unintended reasons, the visual exhibition “Hear Us!” at the Off-Center Gallery...
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One May 21, 1861, Henry David Thoreau passed through Ann Arbor on the Michigan Central Railroad....
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“I believe that Terry has gained a kind of immortality through the people she...
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SNOWBOUND LANGUAGE”Isn’t it snice?” asked the snaughter, looking out the window...
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In the early 1990s, when I was in my late 30s, I lived in Huntington Woods, a small suburb of...
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Joan Blos died on October 12, 2017. This profile originally appeared in the December, 1994 issue...
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