Dave Baker’s boat. I got lucky. Dave Baker offered me a trip in his 31-foot Sea Ray Sedan Bridge. Yep, it’s a boat! And not only was I offered the opportunity to take a boat ride, the boat ride actually occurred, which was the lucky part. The skies were gray on September sixth. It had […]

Busy in the historical building On the last day of the Erie County Fair, my friend Mary and I went to see the sights and to see the objects that we had entered into various contests. She had entered potted plants and vegetables, and I had entered paintings. The last day of the fair is

I’ve been staying close to home this summer. The weather has been conducive to gardening and I have been fortunate enough to get plenty of calls from people who need their gardens cleared of weeds and their overgrown shrubbery pruned. It is great work, and it keeps me outside for hours on end. Needless to

Late in the afternoon of August 9th, the Japanese Gardens at Delaware Park were full of walkers, runners, and several wedding parties. The brides and grooms and their families and friends were busy having their pictures taken in that very idyllic setting. The Japanese Gardens are located on mirror lake behind the Buffalo History Museum

On a beautiful June day, we walked from Paw Paw to Kalamazoo. My feet had adjusted to the daily pounding, and I was feeling good. The On the Ground to Ground the Drones group had bonded and it felt good to walk through Michigan with my walker family. little pieces of sunlight by the side

Michigan is a state that I had never visited in the past. When I travel via bus or train to Chicago, I don’t go into Michigan. I go through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois… but no Michigan. If I were to travel via Canada, I would go into Michigan. But I digress. I

a pantoum about day two of the on the ground to ground the drones walk (Chicago to Battle Creek) I walk past shells of old industrial plants, In a place that time erased from existence, So close to the skyscrapers of Chicago Yet this poisoned place feels like a different world. In a place that

Diane Lopez Hughes and Maya Evans explore Michigan City. For two nights, a campsite at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was our home. It was not only home to us and a variety of other campers, it was also home to a large quantity of mosquitoes and other biting insects. The insects discovered Maya Evans

It rained all day on June 4th. The sky was a dull gray, as was the landscape. We walked past the decayed shells of former industrial plants. The heavy industry that had not been abandoned belonged to oil companies, mostly BP. Much of the housing had been abandoned and was boarded up. The air smelled

Stretching hands on a long bus ride. That was my view of the person sitting in front of me. On June 3rd, I arrived in Chicago, after riding on buses all night. Oh, that was one wild adventure. The bus to Cleveland was an easy ride but the bus from Cleveland to Chicago? Well, that