Tag Archives: family

The world’s best journal

Posted on January 31, 2017 by

I swear you will not regret starting this journal. Way back in 2006 I bought a small wire-bound journal with penned indecipherable cursive writing atop its ivory cover. Barry and I had experienced too many conversations that went like this: … Continue reading →

Posted in January 2017 | Tagged , , , , , | 23 Comments

Feelin’ birthday blessings…

Posted on July 17, 2016 by

  I am driving back home today along the shores of Lake Superior, thinking now of you and you and you. The car tires strum pavement, waves lap and seagulls wing overhead. Have just spent almost a week with my … Continue reading →

Posted in July, 2016 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 56 Comments

Passenger pigeons, Show & Tell and my dad

Posted on April 11, 2016 by

As some of you may know my dad died on January 11th.  Exactly three months ago today. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer that had invaded his bones and I wrote this love-letter blog back in 2013 after learning his … Continue reading →

Posted in April, 2016 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 42 Comments

100% Backwoods Yooper

Posted on March 16, 2015 by

Last week Barry and I drove to a Baraga-Ontonagon high school basketball tournament, about an hour from where we live.  We found ourselves ‘way back in the Upper Peninsula (Yooper) backwoods, re-living a family memory from the early 1980’s. Barry … Continue reading →

Posted in March 2015 | Tagged , , , , , , , | 67 Comments

The grandkittens grow up into grandcats

Posted on September 30, 2014 by

This morning I would like to show you some photos of the grandcats.  Last summer I introduced them in their precious kittenhood with this blog post:  Did I forget to tell you I’m a grandma now?  Or you may have seen … Continue reading →

Posted in September 2014 | Tagged , , , , , , , | 63 Comments

My first love…before Lake Superior

Posted on August 31, 2014 by

Perhaps some of you might be surprised to know that my love of Lake Superior birthed on the shores of Lake Huron.  Shall I share about my first love down in lower Michigan, that long arm of the Great Lakes reaching … Continue reading →

Posted in August 2014 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 32 Comments

Don’t be afraid to scale down beside waterfalls.

Posted on July 7, 2014 by

I could tell you stories. Every walk in nature writes a novella. If you look carefully you can find the characters, the plot, the resolution. Would you like to read four short stories?  (I promise they shall be short.)  At … Continue reading →

Posted in July 2014 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 34 Comments