Sonny’s is set to reopen next week. Chris and Sonny will be the people swanning about wearing suntans and relaxed expressions. I will be the pale creature tottering in the door at daybreak, gazing hopefully at the case where the cinnamon rolls reside in season. Show me a story and I’ll share my cinnamon roll […]
Jack Bodis says Torch Lake Views has been making him feel cold, what with pictures of horses wearing snowsuits, the frozen Bay and the ice-boats on Torch Lake. He says “we have to live with it, there’s no reason we should have to look at it too.” Jack is a printer (he did one of […]
The Fire Part Soooo . . . on Friday the volunteer fire department spent an hour over at the Eastport Market. When the parking lot is full of fire trucks it tends to put people off coming in to shop, although in Torch Lake Township you never can tell. For one thing, half of us […]
I’ve been taking a lot of pictures of sacred spaces. I didn’t set out to do it. It just happened. There was the Wayside Chapel tucked into the post about Friske’s Market. There was an assignment from the Antrim Review about the 125th Anniversary of First Congregational Church in Central Lake. Six miles up M-88 the […]
My friend Betty Jo is a film buff, a traveler, a member of the Breakfast Bunch at Sonny’s and the Cabin Fever Club, and heaven knows what else. The other day we were on our way to Sutton’s Bay to see Edge of Heaven when she told me that she had had to give up […]
I save scraps of good stuff, hoping to find a post home for it. A photo I like, a little piece of news, all kinds of stuff. Then comes the day when I put all the scraps into a post and hope it comes out soup. Looky here: Township Treasurer Sharon Schultz broke her leg […]
February 25, 2009
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