This blog posting could be for John Considine, who I met in 2008 or 2012 while working a phone bank… Read more As Good and Saucy as a Coney

“Travels with Books” is this year’s festival theme for the 14th Annual Kerrytown BookFest, taking place Sunday, September 11 at the Ann Arbor… Read more My New “Mainland” Island Companion

Yes, that is a small plane in the featured photo above. And, yes, that is Tom Daldin, host of the… Read more You Never Know Who You Might Meet

For those of you who grew up in the Detroit area, as I did, the name “Bob-Lo” may conjure up annual… Read more A Bois Blanc Welcome, “Bob-Lo Style”

The sun is shining, the grapes are growing, the wine is good. This is where you want to be with… Read more Dispatch from the Pelee Island Winery Pavilion

Before you check the island ferry schedule, you may want to check another schedule first. On most Great Lakes Basin islands, summer… Read more Before You Check the Ferry Schedule

Every inhabited Great Lakes Basin island has celebrated one or the other of two “nationhood” holidays over this past long… Read more Of Nations and Islands, Flags and Fundraisers

Dance of the mayflies . . . or flight of the “fishflies” . . . or “march” of the “Canadian… Read more The Ephemeral Dance of the Mayfly

Now that we’re just on the other side of the Summer Solstice, you may want to reconsider if you’ve yet… Read more A”Baker’s Dozen” of Islands