What a privilege is mine this month to present as our December 2016 Free Book, the newly released THE BARON AND THE BEAR, Rupp’s Runts, Haskins’s Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever by our friend David Kingsley Snell. THE BARON AND THE BEAR, published by the prestigious University of Nebraska Press, is an incredible true story…
We’ve enjoyed — perhaps the better word is endured — some unusual Christmases in the past. The most memorable was the year my husband fell off the roof on December 23 and broke 11 ribs, his back and his forearm. Add internal injuries and you know we spent the Christmas holidays in the intensive care…
Sunday, July 19 found us on the road again to promote the Michigan State University Press book HERE, Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and the Wayne State University Press book, THE WAY NORTH, Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, both books edited by Dr. Ronald Riekki. This time Neil and I drove to Munising, Michigan,…
I just added an incredible book to my library, and I want to share it with as many people as possible. The book is a release from the Michigan State University Press and is entitled, HERE — WOMEN WRITING ON MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENINSULA, edited by Dr. Ronald Riekki. One of the reasons I’m so excited…
This week our weather was pretty vicious, but at least our snow is melting, most of the bay ice is gone, and we have a forecast of warmer days to come! I took photos of our two biggest snowbanks as of May 1: The melting snow is definitely the good news, but the bad news…
At least once a day, my father goes through these doors with a smile on his face and an ache in his heart. He goes there because the love of his life is spending her last days being loved and cared for by the kind and competent staff at Cedar Cove Assisted Living. My mother…
I’ve lived in Michigan almost all my life, except for a short time in Oxford, Massachusetts, and another in Denver, Colorado, but this morning as I look out over our icy bay, I’m BOSTON PROUD. Happy Patriots’ Day, and many blessings to all of those folks participating in the Boston Marathon as runners, volunteers, organizers…
We were excited today to see the thermometer register 32.9 F. at 8 am!! Above freezing, WITH temps forecast in the 40s! Maybe we have hope for spring after all. However, we do have a long way to go…. I took this photo this morning at my father-in-law’s house, which is next door to ours….
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