No Child Left Inside
“The sky was our storybook,” Ray Rustem told me as I discussed the No Child Left Inside initiative he’s spearheading within the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. When we were young, we played...
View ArticleVacation Home vs. Vacationing
Every year, my parents take my family and my siblings’ families to northern Michigan for a week of swimming, eating and cousins playing on the grass between the cottages. It’s a vacation we look...
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Perfect Quiet: Mackinac Island
On an island with nothing motorized absolute quiet and the sound of waves crashing against land at every turn. I take a bike around the 8-mile perimeter and keep stopping to marvel at this natural...
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The Books We Keep on a Shelf
When we moved into this house, we had more books than shelves to keep them on. We donated boxes, gave away the duplicates. Some are still in boxes – one in the dining room in the corner that we never...
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My First Real Sadhana: 4 a.m.
Even my daughter thought I was crazy to deliberately wake before 4 a.m. to do an early yoga, meditation and prayer practice with my friend Katherine. But we’re Up North, preparing to lead a retreat...
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From Scratch
“This is made from scratch in a home kitchen with the best ingredients,” the woman told us. She was pointing to artful cupcakes in plastic containers with homemade labels stuck to the top. “I once...
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A World of Contradictions – or is it Juxtapositions?
The Facebook posts scroll through hate and war and terror to love and hope and brilliance. A woman posts her son’s first book. A friend poses in an optimistic way on a brilliant sunny beach with the...
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