All Blog Posts Tagged 'community' (5)

Most Traverse City people know John Robert Williams as one of the guys who founded the Traverse City Film Festival and as a local photographer who has operated his photo studio in town for 30 years. His studio also shares his moniker, John Robert Williams Commercial Photography.… Continue

Let me start by saying this: if you are anything like high school students, the one thing that you will probably remember about this blog is that I once held a job as Chuck E. Cheese. Yes, as in, the giant mouse in the horror-filled, horrendous, er, extremely stimulating children’s pizzeria, that happens to serve more beer to adults than it does pizza to children. I tell you this because I was recently in… Continue

Max was sitting on the potty, yelling in that half-asleep moan that reminded us why there is an old adage that says to never wake a sleeping baby—or overly exhausted four year old. The snow was falling steadily outside. Lizzie was squirming and yelping with an obvious desire to match her brother’s screams decibel-for-decibel as I stuffed her back into her fleece bunting (for the fourth time that day). By all accounts,… Continue

I had lunch at Blue Tractor with my old friends from Northwestern Michigan College on Friday. I say old because we have known each other for at least 30 years (classes of 1978 and ’79), and because all but two of us forgot our reading glasses back at the office so we passed one pair around the table so we could read the menu. Bruce Byl got the group together, seven of us—some of us see each other often, others only now and then—and he came equipped with donation forms for NMC’s Community Campai… Continue

I was standing in the middle of my kitchen, staring out our bay window at the valley of trees that now resemble a 70s afghan; a chunky patchwork of brown, red, orange and yellow blanketing the horizon. It was beautiful-- the kind of view folks drive hours to see—and yet all I wanted to do was get in the car and drive for hours too. This is me in the fall (and spring…and sometimes winter). I get wanderlust. I get this fe… Continue