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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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    The doorbell rang tonight after dinner, and it was my package from Amazon: Noah Scalin’s creativity journal, with the challenge to make something every day…

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    I really liked this print by Roger Disney at the art fair in Ann Arbor today. It reminded me of something… can’t put my finger…

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    My name is Kelly, and I am a recovering workshopaholic. When my house was full of little kids and I was stealing naptimes to throw pots…