Planning a trip this winter? Yes, it’s tempting to look for sunny spots where you can lie on a beach or play golf. But some of my favorite winter vacations have been to northerly destinations at their coldest, darkest times of year. I don’t ski, so I’m not looking for powder. But I have ...

“It’s been a long time since we stood beside the water, the sun going down, was burning peaceful and slow,” – Steve Forbert There is a sense that I sometimes get, especially while walking in the woods along an old, sandy two-track road or a grass-grown-over abandoned railroad line or ...

MARQUETTE — The year fisheries biologist George Madison began his career with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, a brand-new Ford F-150 pickup truck cost $8,373, the stage musical “Phantom of the Opera” debuted in London and the Soviet nuclear reactor in Chernobyl ...

I return once again to this messy sanctuary of countless books and musical instruments, a soft couch and a sturdy wooden rocking chair. Outside my window, the night is cold enough to crack. It’s one of those times when walking on certain floors in the house I can feel the cold reach up ...

LANSING — You’re wrong if you think the lowly earthworm has little to do with the health of Michigan’s hardwood forests. To the contrary, “exotic” — non-native — earthworms can have “widespread and complex effects” on individual trees and overall forest health, according to ...

The sky was bright blue and sunny with a few clouds floating by above us. I felt happy to be outside anywhere, feeling numb with my senses dulled by the blur, stress and anxieties of the holidays. But the place my boots would take me today was far better than just anywhere outside. My ...