Over this past week I packed and cleaned and wore myself out getting ready for a long trip toward the places where I'm hoping merry holi...

I’ve been sending out Christmas cards since I was around 16 years old, when my mom told me I was old enough to start sending out my own ...

Until Martin Bashir either resigned or was let go by MSNBC this week, I was a loyal fan. I watched Bashir because the things that engaged h...

I'm coming off of my Thanksgiving week high, settling down, and what's the first thing I think of when I get back to my desk to d...

Wishing you all a great Thanksgiving!  No blog here today, but I'm sharing a few others from my other blog, Constant Commoner . This o...

Hamtramck is a tiny city completely surrounded by big Detroit.  It has almost nothing in common with Motown except that they're both tem...

On that day I was up in my sewing room, away from the TV.  My four-year-old son was napping, and my 7-year-old daughter was in school. My hu...

Everybody knows the Walton family, the people who put the "Wal" in "Walmart", is the richest family in America.  They...

Yesterday I wrote about Opening Day for Michigan’s deer hunting season.  But yesterday was also opening day for a hunting season not see...

Today marks the opening of hunting season here in Michigan’s north woods.  The schools are closed in most upper state commu...