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Tag: Michigan
The Snow Melting Pot
This is an update to yesterday’s post that told the story of how our furnace went out, causing our pipes to freeze and then burst, resulting in two inches of water in our house on Lake Superior. We have heat but no water. Well, we… Continue Reading “The Snow Melting Pot”
Drunk Talk
There’s no way I’m going into my 68th year with unpainted toes. So I find the old bottle of deep, serious red polish from the medicine cabinet at our house on Lake Superior, a place where we have one of everything that is absolutely… Continue Reading “Drunk Talk”
The Trip Home through Hudson
The Western Auto Store is now a Chinese restaurant and not a very good one from the looks on people’s faces. Bad meals had been eaten there. We stopped the car for just a minute but when I got out, I decided against a… Continue Reading “The Trip Home through Hudson”
Our Pure Michigan
At first the lake was perfectly still, a set for a canoeing commercial, and we glided along like people who lived in a tent most of the time and traveled on foot instead of who we are, people who live in a house and… Continue Reading “Our Pure Michigan”
I’m Berry Well, Thank You, and You?
A key thing about being a regular blogger is sometimes not giving a shit if anyone reads what you write. That’s my number one message tonight. My second message has to do with blueberries. Specifically, disabusing people of the notion that picking wild blueberries… Continue Reading “I’m Berry Well, Thank You, and You?”
Caught
I’m hard pressed to write about fathers. I had one and I’ve known several, one or two very well, but I don’t think like a father so everything I write is from a spectator’s point of view. It gives the whole challenge of ‘voice’… Continue Reading “Caught”
Don’t Make Me Leave Hastings
Just an hour ago, the sun was shining on my back while I painted the window frames. In the distance I could see the fog coming our way off Lake Superior and wished I’d started painting earlier. Now we’re enveloped and I hope it… Continue Reading “Don’t Make Me Leave Hastings”
The Wolf on the Road
I saw right away that it was a wolf. People will want to tell me that it was a coyote but I’ve seen coyotes and I’ve seen wolves and this was a wolf. Tall, walking fast but purposefully, head up, looking straight ahead, not… Continue Reading “The Wolf on the Road”
My Day with Bob Evans
This incredibly flattering and beautifully composed photograph was taken this morning after breakfast at our beloved Bob Evans restaurant, this one just north of Lansing in DeWitt. We were driving south on US127 from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant where, the night before,… Continue Reading “My Day with Bob Evans”
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
There are few things as strange as having your place burn down. I know this. It happened to us. Yesterday, it happened to the people who own Rainbow Lodge, the motel deep in the deep of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the place on the fabled Two-Hearted… Continue Reading “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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