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Tag Archives: Up North
Favorite Things: Symon’s General Store
This is not so much a favorite thing as it is a favorite place. One that holds a treasure trove of favorite things, as all good General Stores do. I know this means you can’t run out and check out … Continue reading
Posted in Favorite Things
Tagged favorite things, Petoskey, Symon's General Store, Up North, za'atar
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Postcard from Up North
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ? Victor Borge (There were three, and they had just run out in front of me across M-119. They smiled for the camera, we laughed together, and then they moved on.)
Postcard from Up North
If you don’t know where you’re from, you’ll have a hard time saying where you’re going. ~Wendell Berry (Red barn with blue tractor. They’re helping me know where I’m from, and where I’m going.)
Postcard from Up North
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. ~ Dr. Seuss (Farewell summer 2012. We are smiling because you happened, and we were here.)
Michigan’s whitefish dinner
Up north, there is no more quintessential meal than the one that makes Lake Superior whitefish its centerpiece. Restaurants may be few here, and their food not always what we’d like, but you can always, everywhere find whitefish on the … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged corn, Fish, green beans, Potatoes, Up North, whitefish
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Postcard from Up North
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and dreams. ~ Pope John Paul XXIII (Lighthouse in spring, Lake Charlevoix. It’s the kind of light that both sends us on our way and welcomes us home. I’ll be watching for just … Continue reading
Postcard from Up North
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~ Tuli Kupferberg (Broken ice on Little Traverse Bay. Can’t wait to see what worlds will emerge with this spring’s thaw.)
Postcard from Up North
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should … Continue reading
Postcard from Up North
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, as full of heartaches and of remorse as his own…how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. … Continue reading
Strawberry Rose Valentine Dream
I was fortunate enough to grow up with a dear friend who taught me a lot about enjoying life’s simple pleasures. Cindy comes from a long line of simple-pleasure-seekers, people of the land who had an apple orchard downstate and … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged chocolate, Family, Harbor Springs, Michigan, Rose Water, Strawberries, Up North
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Postcard from Up North
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~ Mary Pickford (First snow on Main … Continue reading
Postcard from Up North
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (An eager Weque winding stone brook, one of many … Continue reading
Postcard from Up North
Walloon Lake, summer night. Wish you were here. (This must be real if it looks this good taken with my phone.)




