As the hours, days, weeks and months roll past and into the rearview mirror, I think there is a tendency to take for granted the daily trappings of living. Despite my best efforts to remain present, aware and grateful each day, I can see myself maybe like a sparrow that gets used to seed ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
