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It’s just after 8am and I can hear them in the hallway. I peek around the corner from my office and glimpse light blue socks. A few pairs of red ones. They’re reading poetry to each other from [...]

I awake to the sound of the PA system in Junior Boys resounding through the pine forest. At the crosswalk, hundreds of boys in blue and white cross with the crossing guards, nametags clinking as [...]

Please take a moment to review my latest WEBSITE UPDATES, including news about my next public reading at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Local readers: Attend and have access to a limited [...]

Here’s what’s been going on: For days now I’ve been in that deeply immersed space of fiction and anything that interrupts that “dream” is difficult for me to focus [...]

They call them “the inland seas.” They call them “the third coast.” Together, they boast nearly 5,000 documented shipwrecks and conjure their own weather patterns. Which is why, after severe [...]

Since Interlochen’s property spreads across the highway along both Duck and Green Lakes, decent portions of each shoreline are speckled with camp-owned three-season cabins. I’ve had my eye on a [...]

Last night, I met a woman who I’d already met before. What I mean is, being the only newcomer at a potluck between old friends, I found someone who felt the most like the mountains of Western [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen: How can I possibly write while holding my breath for 4 quarters of basketball? I have nothing further to say until Game 7 of the NBA Finals is over. GO CELTICS!

I made my first pilgrimage to Meijer this week. It’s Michigan’s version of a family-owned chain that’s credited with coining the “supercenter” concept and literally trademarked the phrase, “One [...]

I put on my “summer blues” uniform this afternoon and walked to the campus mailroom. Signs of summer greeted me at every turn. Never mind the fact that every person I encountered also adorned [...]