Art Afoot
My view from the front porch of a Second St. home on the Old West Side last fall was worthy of a...
Read MoreMay 25, 2022 | Environment, My Town, News |
It is not often that Iggy Pop, Pete Seeger, and the ivory-billed woodpecker can all be considered...
Read MoreAs I walked the streets of Ann Arbor after moving to town twelve years ago, I breathed in all the...
Read MoreWhen frustrated with an immovable bureaucrat or customer service rep, some people may cuss, pray,...
Read MoreOn our way to see the haircut aunties a week before Chinese New Year, we run into our little friend Miss Hu (who the kids say should go to medical school so that she can become Doctor Hu). We take a picture together and tell her...
Read MoreWhen my daughter went off to college, I made a list of things I would do to fill in the gaps left...
Read MoreI met Jimmy Hoffa in April 1960 when he spoke to students at the University of Michigan Law...
Read MoreChuck Armstrong is a polite, soft-spoken, and engaging man. You’d never guess he is a barracuda at Scrabble. Did you know there are competitive Scrabble tournaments? I certainly didn’t when I first started...
Read MorePetoskey rests among the hills on Little Traverse Bay near the tip of the Lower Peninsula....
Read MoreLast August, my friend Tom arrived late to our weekly socially distant gathering (My Town,...
Read MoreSt. Thomas Cemetery, often referred to as “the Old Catholic Cemetery,” sits at the...
Read MoreDuring the warm months of the pandemic, my husband and I took walks in different neighborhoods,...
Read MoreIt was early April, in the first days of Covid, when I came upon the small stone on top of an...
Read More“I come from a car family,” says Holly Fischer. “I got the bug from my...
Read MoreI lived in Ann Arbor for twenty-three years, then semi-retired to Florida in Mickey Mouse’s...
Read MoreAug 8, 2020 | Community, Marketplace, My Town |
In 1973, I was a senior at U-M, heading off to grad school at UCLA. My dorm room at Baits Housing, high on a hill overlooking North Campus, was filled with mementos and metaphysical charms: tissue paper flowers, stuffed animals,...
Read MoreAfter forwarding a variety of news stories to a friend in Las Vegas on January 21, as an afterthought I texted, “Watch this Wuhan, China event, they’ve shut down a city of over 50 million people. Imagine if that...
Read MoreAs an employee in a grocery store during the pandemic, I have seen numerous changes in how we work...
Read MoreForget toilet paper shortages. One of the earliest items to sell out during this siege was jigsaw puzzles. Finally, I am ahead of the trend! I didn’t need to worry about procuring any, because I try to keep a few...
Read MoreWith the passage of the 2018 Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, adults may legally...
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