I often get requests to not write about certain individuals with whom I share mixed marital arts. Therefore, I will not name my wife, Melissa, as the...
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I’m often both villain and victim when it comes to environmental issues. I don’t recycle enough. I don’t compost at all. I consume coal-fired...
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...
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...
In 26 years of living on the same speck of rural America, I’ve felt threatened once.
As the title of the article implies, I see a lot of very neat things in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Two feet of snow in 24 hours this past weekend called forth Shakespearean emotions--wonder, anger, despair, altruism, selfishness…and lower-back pain.
Remember Neel Kashkari? Here’s a hint: $700 billion. Here’s another: TARP. Kashkari was the bald guy who handed out $400 billion...
The guns of November always herald Thanksgiving. We are in the middle of rifle season for deer. Muzzle-loading season is behind; other seasons are...
I was desperately seeking a column idea before dawn on Tuesday morning when fortune smiled: My back wheel fell off.