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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
All on a frosty morning
It's nippy down on the beach unless you are in a patch of sun. Mama Nature has been busy remodeling.
Live blogging from the depths of answer waiting
March 17, 2016
I am listening to bad music on speakerphone, interspersed with an excessive number of recorded apologies for why it's taking so long. Eventually I will reach a real live person.
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Finding Color in Mud Season
March 14, 2016
It has been above freezing. Good. It has been raining. Not so good. We decided to adjust our perspective.
The Road to Barnard, Part 3, in which Harry Potter appears
March 13, 2016
When the people of a small community go to the trouble of putting up a memorial to their neighbors, I always want to know more about those memorialized. We covered the story of Leslie T. Shapton in Part 2. Let's go on to Harry Potter and Harold Cole.
Firehouse chili
March 9, 2016
Regular readers will have noticed that I have a soft spot in my heart for firefighters, mostly because I raised one. Partly, though, it’s because they show up to do work worth doing when we most want it done. All of this is a prelude to inviting you to the the Torch Lake Fireman’s Association […]
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Babs is in Blue Heaven. I am in trouble.
March 7, 2016
Like many people Around Here, Babs Young takes a little bit of northern Michigan with her every time she goes to Florida–which is another thing a lot of people do in February. Not everyone, of course. Not Miss Sadie. Not the Cowboy. Not I. Babs writes: Blue Heaven is both on Torch Lake and in Key […]
Books in Northport
- A Year of Reading: Books Read 2025
- New Year’s Resolution: Write More Letters!
- Nineteen Years Ago
- 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
Carsten in Denmark
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