Plays and Pictures

Just two quickies today. First: it’s production week for the Calumet Players’ Once Upon a Mattress! Come see the show this Friday and Saturday (Sept. 10,11) or next Thursday, Friday, or Saturday (Sept. 16, 17, 18) at the Calumet Theatre. A sneak peek at the king and me (in yet another gigantic pink dress [...]

UP ♥

Just a quick installment on my continuing love letter to the UP.
My truck blew a radiator hose the other day, causing antifreeze to spray out all over the engine–which meant no driving. Today, I brought it up to my brother’s shop, where  one of the mechanics looked at the mess. He found tools, [...]

Finally, an answer to the question everyone asks: what’s next?
First: I’m going to stay in the UP until my lease ends at the end of December*. I am all too aware how precious this time is, when I can be home and run into friends and sit by Lake Superior and make last-minute plans and [...]

After roaming relatively unscathed through some of the less-lovely parts of the world, I’ve come to see myself as independent and reasonably capable–that is, until a couple of weeks ago, when I bought a 25-year-old truck with a manual transmission, no gas gauge, and no RPM meter. Combine those “features” with a crippling lack of [...]

Summer lovin’

Each time I run into an old friend or acquaintance in the UP–which is a frequent, always lovely occurrence–I hear, “What are you doing now?” Sometimes, the question is posed with excitement by a person who hopes to hear details of an upcoming adventure in Antarctica or wildest Africa. Sometimes it’s a tentative, nervous query, [...]

Happy Father’s Day!

All of my siblings but one happened to be in town today, so we had a picnic at the beach…Happy Father’s Day, Dad!

Okay, so the sign wasn’t actually that big, and Jake wasn’t actually there–note how he’s wearing a hat and jacket at the beach in June–I photoshopped both of them in. The sign is [...]

Road trip photos

Quick update: left NYC, flew to LA, met cousin Jerry north of LA, visited Happy Camp in northern CA (where we lived when I was 5), hung out with some locals, went running in a place called “Cougar Gulch,” drove to Oregon along the lovely coast, spent a night in Portland (which I loved), hung [...]

More NYC ♥

More photos from lovely NYC, including a quick visit from Steve and some jumping in Central Park. I’m now on the west coast, roadtripping from LA to Portland to Seattle to Montana to Minnesota to Michigan.
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I ♥ NY

I’m in New York, once again plotting to move here. It’s hard not to love a city that has something going on 24 hours a day, plus a fantastic host of loonies and characters (my favorite: the grown man dressed as a fairy, complete with wings and fake flowers, clomping along ungracefully in the subway). [...]

South Beach Bum

When last I left you, I was dreading the week and a half to come. Now, I’m writing from South Beach in Miami, a few days older and a million times happier. Amazing what a location change can do for the spirit.
Endless delays in the Cali airport allowed plenty of time to research [...]