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Browsing All Posts filed under »In my opinion . . .«
Another lifesaving use for duct tape
We spend a fair amount in Torch Lake Township to ensure that when we call 911 with a medical emergency, Kip or Shanna or Bill or Dawn or Brett or one of the other excellent souls on the EMS staff will pull up smartly in our driveway in a shiny ambulance, administer tender care, and […]
Cranky Gerry
August 20, 2009
OK, it’s pouring out there and I have to go to the day job in a little while and my allergies are acting up, so you know I’m going to go on a tear about something, right? Three things, actually (sorry PJ). Mama Nature, why oh why did you gift us with both mosquitoes AND […]
Wonders never cease
August 4, 2009
I spent last Thursday at a Special Meeting of the Torch Lake Township Board. You’re probably already wishing I’d posted a flower, right? Bear with me. Bang off at the beginning of the meeting Supervisor George Parker did something I never thought I’d live to see a public official do. He said that he’d made […]
Vision, perspective, and the old Traverse City State Hospital
July 28, 2009
Ray Minervini has a vision of what the former Traverse City State Hospital could become. He’s been working on realizing that vision for a decade, and has made tremendous progress. His Village at Grand Traverse Commons includes condominiums and rental apartments, professional office space, and the Mercato, a collection of fine shops, dining and entertainment […]
An idiot sitting in her underwear in the basement, blogging
July 25, 2009
Ken Kamp’s signs at his Good Nature Farms farmstand on US 31 say Always fresh-always ours. A sound motto. I subscribe to it. It could be the motto for Torch Lake Views, but Ken got there first. I am musing on this because former Detroit Free Press columnist Harry Cook, in the course of a […]
Prickly issues
July 23, 2009
This bull thistle is an apt symbol for contentious Township meetings. It’s shaped like a bullhorn, full of ouch, yet beautiful—not unlike democracy in action. (Someone said Democracy is a terrible system but the best one we’ve invented so far.) As I waded through wet bull thistles taking pictures, I discovered a little drama at the […]
Books in Northport
- I don't have much to say.
- It's all in here: the sublime, silly, dangerous, petty, too cute for words, and a shed tear.
- From the Tenth to the Twelfth
- Goodbye, November. Hello, Winter!
- Gratitude and Death
- Deer Season, Among Books
- Time’s Wingèd Chariot
- Looking and Looking and Looking!
- Color/Light and Home in Autumn
- Turn, Turn, Turn
Carsten in Denmark
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