Walking up the stairs to bed, I felt as old as the year. Sometimes, everything I do feels like every other thing I do, like every other thing I do. The days twirl and blend into each other like chocolate syrup swirls in a vanilla ice cream dessert, making the cold confection turn a pale ...
“They’re looking back, too many people looking back,” – Bob Seger It’s the time of the year that I tend to find myself thinking back, in all kinds of ways, to find out where I’ve been and where I hope to go. As part of that annual holidays, end-of-year exercise, I like to ...
By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University 1997 history alumnus Philip Webb completed Spain’s famous pilgrimage trail, El Camino de Santiago — also known as “The Way”— walking 621 miles over 38 days on the longest, most arduous route. The trail, listed by the ...
“Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam; then let us sit and watch the while the blue ice curdling on the stream.” – Emily Jane Bronte Frigid temperatures always bring out the best in the edges of creeks and brooks. Splashes and changes of current often ...
“Well, I grew up wild and free, walking these fields in my bare feet. There wasn’t no place I couldn’t go with a .22 rifle and a fishing pole,” – Bob McDill Growing up in an iron-ore mining town put us kids in close contact with some of the coolest things. I think of my little ...
By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Is honey always harmless? That’s what some inquiring Northern Michigan University minds want to know. Maris Cinelli, an assistant professor of chemistry at NMU, and Dominick Dotson, a junior majoring in medicinal plant chemistry, ...
