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Rainy Day Ideas for Traverse City, Petoskey, Charlevoix and Leelanau

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Maps From the Third Coast; sharing my up north experience

Here I wish to share the real, if hidden, beauty of Up North, is in its inclusiveness to meet each person and each family - where they are - and in this way, make their Up North experience, unique and of their own. On this blog I share my up north experience which takes place (mostly) on the Leelanau Penninsula and Grand Traverse Bay. Feel free to share your's. Thanks for reading...

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August, 2009
Glen Arbor, MI

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River

Strength and courage overrides The privileged and weary eyes Of river poet search naivete. Pick up here and chase the ride. The river empties to the tide. All of this is coming your way - The River, R.E.M. Funny. The songs that come to me after some down time on lakes and rivers and playing music with a friend. But it occurred to me kayaking the other day, this song came into my head, how this time Up North has highlighted crossroads for our family. Our oldest is of the age we can no lon… Continue

Posted on August 21st, 2009 at 4:00pm —

Wish You Were Here

It's the song you play when you have two guitarists on a Lake Michigan beach. Acoustic twelve-string and six-string. That timeless tune that gets better and better (fulfilling its own irony ), "year after year". That, and "Sweet Melissa" works well. And then any one of Bob Marley's tunes, peppered with a few well-placed minor chords. All thumb, no pick. But that afternoon on the beach, as we played our music, I watched the horizon grow dark, the wind changed direction and intensified as a storm… Continue

Posted on August 17th, 2009 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

You're My Blue Sky (You're My Sunny Day)

Today has been a good day. And a sad day too. First, the good part; sharing an early breakfast with our friends and their beautiful children. Good food and good conversation under the umbrella of pines and bird song and the sun finally rising up to crest the tops of pines and burn off the dew. And then the children sneaking in one last time to play as adults talked and later to hear their new schemes in an attempt to delay the inevitable - seeing them off, home to Pennsylvania. That was the sad… Continue

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Hosts to Pure Michigan

My wife Deborah is a Michigan girl. Born and raised and proud. She's not shy about it either when talking on blogs and over the Internet. She's "smitten with the mitten," as she likes to tell her out-of-state friends. And a couple of years ago, when we were thinking of taking our vacation out east, she said, "I don't know. I think I'd like to relax and go Up North. Besides, everything we want to do and our boys want to do is there anyway." Except whales. And the ocean. She knew this. And I did… Continue

Posted on July 25th, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

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At 8:42pm on May 25th, 2009, Janet said…: Thank You for the compliments on my page. This is fun!
Yes i remember John Denver, I always liked his music. Especially when we visited The Great Smoky Mountains!
I had a very enjoyable weekend, and hope you did as well.

At 10:51pm on April 15th, 2009, Rachel North said…: Betty is 7, so I tried to write as if she was 49. And frankly she acts a little older. She's got a little fuddy duddy in her. And she's suspicious and protective, adding to the age in her perspective I think. One of my colleagues thought she was an older woman from Charlevoix, struggling to be happy. Another didn't like her posts and thought she was a downer. As a writer, it was interesting for me to hear these unvarnished comments. It helped me recognize that to them, she was sad. And I hadn't thought I'd written her that way. Also fun that they didn't recognize me in her. Well I'll have to come up with something else ...

At 1:54am on April 11th, 2009, Rachel North said…: hey, hi, just wanted to check in, now that I outed Betty. You were her biggest fan and I just hope we didn't disappoint you. My ghost writing her blog was a bit of a surprise. Can you appreciate the perspective? And sometime can we catch a cup of coffee?