Happiness. It's relative.
Posted on August 15, 2024 by Jan Wilberg
When we stopped at the roadside park on U.S. 2 along Lake Michigan in the U.P., I saw a head bobbing pretty far out and I wondered whether the person was floating on a surfboard hoping to catch some tiny Great Lakes wave that… Continue Reading “A Bobbing Head in the Distance”
Category: Grand MaraisTags: Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, Swimming in the Great Lakes
Posted on November 14, 2022 by Jan Wilberg
Tonight, I learned the meaning of the word fetch, used as a noun, to describe the growing power of wind and waves. This is especially pertinent to a lover of Lake Superior who is frequently at a loss to describe the lake’s extraordinary drama.… Continue Reading “The Gales of November”
Category: Grand MaraisTags: Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot, Great Lakes, history, Lake Superior
Posted on March 6, 2017 by Jan Wilberg
Category: WritingTags: beach, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Lighthouse, nature, Upper Peninsula
Posted on September 6, 2016 by Jan Wilberg
Run without worry Give thought over to the waves Laugh to the last edge
Category: WritingTags: Great Lakes, haiku, joyfulness, Lake Michigan, poetry, teenagers


What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.
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