A view from the Sleeping Bear Dunes When I started this blog a little more than four years ago, I was living in Virginia and yearning to...

The Redford Theatre As a teenager, I saw a handful of movies at the Redford Theatre in Detroit--classics like The African Queen , On th...

My family visited Marquette at the end of August, and my two young daughters (age eight and four) loved everything about it. With its m...

The front of the parade on Cass Lake Road Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer. In Michigan, it's time for backya...

The Orchard Lake St. Mary's Polish Country Fair I am not a carnival person. I was as a kid, but I lost my interest in carnival food ...