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You Wouldn’t Like it Here

January 20, 2010 4 Comments

As the title of a popular book by Lon L. Emrick about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula states, You Wouldn’t Like it Here. Though I whole- heartedly disagree with that title, there are many truths to his point.

No pipe “unthaws” before its time

January 14, 2010 0 Comments

Like much of America, we in Blue Grass are slowly “unthawing,” which is how we phrase it out here. For 20 days after Christmas, two-thirds of the land of the free was moaning the frozen-pipe blues as temperatures stayed closer to zero.

How Blue Grass might approach terrorism

January 7, 2010 3 Comments

In 26 years of living on the same speck of rural America, I’ve felt threatened once.

Stuff I See in the Woods

January 7, 2010 1 Comment

As the title of the article implies, I see a lot of very neat things in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

“The Ponz” tells his side

January 2, 2010 0 Comments

We’re finally out of the 21st Century’s Aughts, during which we ought to have behaved better. We’re close to entering the Century’s adolescence. Its teen years are as likely to be as troublesome as its predecessors.