OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO

I've learned that when you’re having a hard time relaxing, it never hurts to follow the Japanese example. No, I’m not talking about get...

I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaack. And I can hardly believe it’s been five months. Or maybe I can. Between closing on our new house, packing up our l...

1. My friends, hands down. (You all mean the world to me, and I WILL keep in touch. Fortunately, you'll be just one hour time differe...

I apologize for neglecting my blog over the last two months. It's been an unacceptably long gap. But I DO have a good excuse. My boyf...

I saw the 1981 film “ Somewhere in Time ,” starring Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour, as an impressionable preteen. And I admit...I crie...

When I first “mapquested” Grayling, Michigan , I saw that it was three hours north of Detroit and dead in the middle of Northern Michigan. ...

We’ve been having a lot of fun trying to master the accent here in Northern Michigan, which primarily involves elongating your “o’s” by pull...

Cedar, Michigan, is the “Sausage Capital of the World." Yet it’s so small it doesn’t even warrant its own Wikipedia entry. (Rather, i...

Summer in Northern Michigan is all about the cherries. Case in point: we arrived at Traverse City ’s Cherry Capital Airport on July 4th, t...

On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, about two hours from DC, there is a tiny fishing village known as St. Michaels (population ~1,200). Some ...