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 ...
“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 ...
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 perch, ...
In a dark deep canyon, on a north-facing slope where sunlight rarely shines, a couple of fallen trees had been laid across a big drop in the narrow trail. A tiny creek twisted back and forth below. After the winter snows fall, the trees vanish under the accumulation of snow and ice, providing ...