These mornings are often foggy, quite common in the Fall. The closeness of it feels like a cocoon, a place to slowly begin getting ready for the coming winter. But the…
I’m quite certain, sixty years ago today, swimming in the lake in front of our house was most important thing in my young life. A new blue ’55 Chevy was parked in…
I missed getting this posted yesterday, in honor of Women’s Equality Day which celebrates the passing of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920. My mom and her…
I’ve been working with Liz on a book she and her dad have written about his dad. He was a farmer in Michigan who lived his whole life within a…
I must admit I was confused when I began hearing the phrase “Black Lives Matter.” Like many whites, my immediate reaction was to say “ALL lives matter!” A few weeks…
Today marks the day in 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, followed three days later by another being dropped on Nagasaki. More than 130,000 people were killed,…
I’ve not been much of a sports fan for years and years but, like many, especially boys in the 1950s, grew up loving baseball. A huge part of it was…
Still Learning To See 