Rocky River Series: Bridge
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) One of the reasons I love living in downtown Three Rivers is that I get to experience the pleasures…
Politics and the lies we tell about grief
When we do not take grief seriously—our own and another’s—but merely cover its wounds with a garish fairy tale of winking soldiers cheering from…
Rocky River Series: Basketball
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) You can still see the scar where the city removed the downtown basketball courts last summer. Nearby, in the…
Rocky River Series: Camp
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) On the other side of the bridge from the historic timeline mural where a lone Indian gazes longingly into…
Rocky River series: Railroad
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) Three Rivers is located near the old Sauk Trail, a pathway between Detroit and Chicago that was first forged…
Rocky River series: Beach
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) When I first moved to Three Rivers, I heard about a beach that the city had built along the…
Rocky River Series: Mural
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) In the thirteen years I’ve lived in Three Rivers, I’ve watched this mural on the Pealer Street Bridge progressively…
Patterns of migration
She never ceased to wonder at the incredible power of birds for adaptation. These had flown perhaps a thousand miles from the South to…
Reverend Doctor Garbage Man
As a garbage man, I probably know more about the people on my route than their pastor does. John Marboe This delightful StoryCorps piece…
Within the household of nature
Sustainable? For who? For me, for you, for us, for everybody? No, I’m fucking not living sustainably. My welfare is dependent on the third…