Dinner with Pete

by | Aug 10, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction

When I first got to know the Boardman River I had another, secret, name for it. My private name for it was the “Compromise River.” I called it that because the Boardman ultimately empties into the Grand Traverse Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, right in downtown Traverse...

Song of the South Branch

by | Jun 18, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction

Every Michigander knows that the lower half of his state is shaped like the back of a left-handed mitten. If you were to draw a line from the tip of the thumb on Lake Huron, straight west to the City of Ludington on Lake Michigan, you’d more or less divide the Lower...