Charles Baxter’s Advice for Aspiring Writers
Read a lot. Read until you find the things you love, because you will find them. When you find the things you love to read, look at [...]
Listen
The other day I got to sit at a large round table on the campus of Michigan State University with nine other thinkers/doers/makers to talk together about [...]
Ethereal Art
I stumbled upon this chalk-art-in-progress yesterday evening at the northeast corner of E. Liberty St. and S. Fifth Ave., in downtown Ann Arbor. I'm glad I [...]
Harebells and the Wilderness Act
I photographed these flowers on Lillian Ridge in Washington state’s Olympic Mountains a couple of weeks ago, a place that remains buried, at least partially in snow, [...]
Clandestine Dinner in Ladder Company 12, Detroit
Can a nature-loving woman, with a penchant for getting grumpy about misguided land use, enter an abandoned fire station on West Lafayette, Detroit, and feel—happy expectation? This [...]
Diane Seuss’s Poem, “This is now”
There's nostalgia, which serious writers regularly lampoon, for good reasons, I suppose--'though I'm not, you'll notice, one-hundred-percent certain of this. There's also affectionately-clear-eyed-looking-back, an as yet unnamed [...]