Tag Archives: Lake Superior Magazine

When a legally blind man calls you “Gorgeous”

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

Life is really super-duper absolutely inarguably funny. Two days ago I wrote a Farewell for a Little While post.  See ya @ Thanksgiving, readers, because creative fields must lie fallow.  (Oh how Munira and Lisa and I love the word “fallow”.  Isn’t … Continue reading →

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Crooked thoughts & a straight horizon

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

“When I come up here, and I see that great big straight horizon line, all the crooked thoughts in me straighten out.” –Reportedly said by Birney Quick about Lake Superior.  Mr. Quick was a painter and founder of the Grand Marais Art Colony, … Continue reading →

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I want to live on an island.

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Let’s be honest.  Part of me wants to live on an island.  The other parts are completely satisfied living in our Little House in the Big Woods in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The part that wants to live on an island thrilled … Continue reading →

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Real Lake Superior Spirit, Fortitude, Sisu & Tenacity

Posted on March 26, 2010 by

 Time to ‘fess up, Readers.  How many miles have you walked at one time?  Have you ever walked five miles?  Ten miles?  An unbelievable twenty miles?  Please register your all-time record in the comments below.  Mine was five miles on … Continue reading →

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