The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy… Gordon Lightfoot It would not have been a trip to Marquette without thinking of the time my brother almost got swept off a break wall there, during a storm. A couple of days ago I said the UP […]
By now, if you know anything about golf, you know about Brittany Horschel’s alcoholism. The wife of golfer Billy Horschel came out in a series of interviews recently. She is one year sober, after a family intervention and a stint in rehab, and speaking out about her problem drinking and subsequent recovery. Everybody is happy and Brittany is ready […]
I woke at 4:30 to a storm and couldn’t go back to sleep. So, I got up and went to Starbucks. There’s no WIFI at my mom’s and I have been working on an article for Excursions Magazine that’s like a burr – I can’t seem to get it out… I arrived at 5:50 and the place […]
I guess one reason for me posting this, is if you have a child/adult child who has mentioned their concern about your drinking, take their concern and multiply it by at least 50, because they are trying to tell you in the least offensive way possible. Odds are they have spent hours, if not days […]
I got home last night from the long weekend and there was a squat, dead bat curled on my living room rug. I should remind you, I live on the third floor of a converted church. And the section I live in looks like it must have been the bell tower at one time. […]
I was walking up the stairs to my office last week and out of the landing window I saw a bird carrying a big stick. The ratio of bird to branch was so skewed, and the task so utterly fruitless, I stopped and put my bag down to watch. Building a nest… I think it […]
I am currently obsessing about climbing a set of stairs. The stairs begin at a feeder road to the expressway in Grand Rapids and end, like Jack’s beanstalk, high and steep enough above the ground to disappear into the early morning mist. I am obsessing (and I don’t use that word lightly), because this staircase is a […]
