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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 abandoned kitten that Jeff brought home from work when Molly was brand new, the cat who slept on her or beside her for the…

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    I borrowed a friend’s big truck today and made the run to Ann Arbor again, to use my newly built arch form to take down…

  • Molly’s friend

    She was studying this little critter while camping at the lake with the girl scouts last week, and it hopped up to take a closer…