The morning was still, like it was literally frozen in time. Out over the bog, the bare-branched tamaracks and last year’s browned and dried grasses were coated in a thick layer of frost. With the sun just now beginning to reach up over the hill, the scene was becoming backlit. I wish I ...
“Someday I think I’d like to paint a seascape, if I could only get the ocean to stand still,” — Tom T. Hall Recently, I’ve spent some time thinking about landscapes. Quiet time. Good time trying to consider and imbue myself with the notion of these incredible, staggering and ...
CLEVELAND — Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” playing in teacher Nancy Morris’ classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at Cleveland’s ...
LANSING — The turtles had a long journey ahead. They fought for 45 miles against the strong Kalamazoo River current. They left the river and walked up and over a dam blocking their path. They traversed water so shallow their shells likely stuck out of it. The destination? Their home 10 ...
The afternoon was warming steadily as I turned off the blacktop onto a road slicked with a mire of mud, gravel and melting snow. I likened that mixture to what I felt my brain had become after too many winter days spent languishing inside a well-insulated house — full of melting ice cream ...
MARQUETTE — Fish-leather purses and wallets may make their way into Great Lakes fashion with an initiative to use 100% of commercially caught fish by 2025. One of the latest projects of a binational Great Lakes organization is to fully use the region’s whitefish, lake trout, yellow ...
