Tag Archives: story

Pandemic memory: is there anyone else on earth?

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Kathy

In 2031 imagine your grandchild running into your kitchen grabbing a chocolate chip cookie and asking, “Grandma, what do you remember about the pandemic in 2020?” What do you say? How do you describe this year with so many challenges … Continue reading →

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The “like button” twirls, curtsies and waves goodbye (or so we think)

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Kathy

Yesterday the “like button” twirled, curtsied and exited stage left, waving merrily goodbye as she left. Ms. Like Button and I chatted over tea earlier in the day while the Holy poured. I laid the cards on the table as … Continue reading →

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Primitive, prehistoric, bygone, lost, irrevocable, lapsed, expired, run out, ended, finished

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Kathy

A heavy-hearted moment is upon me. This moment has been coming for years and years and years. It is time. Time to throw away my cherished childhood friend.  She that accompanied me through crushes, pimples and teenage angst.  She that … Continue reading →

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Lake Superior Creature Fairy Tale

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Kathy

In the old days, older than the oldest days, long before you drew your first ragged breath, long before your grandmother’s grandmother’s grandmother drew her first ragged and tentative breath–that’s when this story begins. In the bottom of Lake Superior … Continue reading →

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What really happened at the waterfalls…

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Kathy

Good morning, readers, friends, family, stumblers-upon-this-blog! I just posted the above photo on Facebook with an itty bitty explanation:  Magical hike to the Canyon Falls yesterday. Met up with friends we hadn’t seen in a long time. Other hikers met up … Continue reading →

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The mystery of the loud thuds

Posted on December 19, 2017 by Kathy

Yesterday, in between listening to Christmas carols and making a pomegranate kale salad, I heard a loud thud. What in the world could it be? First thought: The mail carrier is delivering presents from Portland, Oregon, or Edgewater, New Jersey! … Continue reading →

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Blank check & best friends

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Kathy

The title which begs to be used is:  Blank checks are a girl’s best friend. However, that would be totally misleading. (Not that I’ve hesitated misleading you before…big grin…) I have two stories to tell you this deliciously melting 42 … Continue reading →

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Just another Polar Vortex in Michigan’s UP

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Kathy

Good chilly blanket-wrapped morning! I hope you’re keeping warm, readers. Let’s pour a cup of coffee–or would you like tea?–or hot cocoa?–and chat for a spell. So many everyday conversations begin and end with weather these days. Our thermometer shivers … Continue reading →

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Throw back your neck and howl

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Kathy

We really must quit meeting like this. We must quit telling stories blessed freezing winter day after winter day. But why not tell stories? The local Anishinabe huddled around campfires in wigwams all winter spinning yarns of Wenabozhoo and the … Continue reading →

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Hullabaloo

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Kathy

Such a hullabaloo in the Northern forest! Spring Seed Boy fell in love with young Snow Maiden. Oh, it’s forbidden, don’t you know! The Winter Queen, in her fury, locked Spring Seed Boy in a shed behind the six-foot snow bank. … Continue reading →

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