Navigating the Massachusetts Health Care Maze for 2015
I spent four and a half hours in the hospital on Friday, but I wasn’t sick at all. No, it was because I needed their assistance to navigate and figure out my options for health insurance in 2015. You no doubt have seen the ads and heard the many news […]
Interstate 91 Changed the Valley Like Nothing Else Ever Has
In 1919, after World War I, the army wanted to test out its fleet of vehicles to see what they needed to improve. They created a three-mile long caravan of trucks, jeeps and soldiers, plus a marching band, and set off across the US. The roads were ridiculously bed, and […]
Where We GOES? To Meet the Customs and Border Patrol
The alarm on my phone began chirping after I was already out of bed, it was set for 5:20 am, but I always get up earlier when duty forces me to rise with the birds. Today I have a mission, to complete a process started nine months ago. I am […]
MeetUps Bring People Together for All Sorts of Great Reasons
Serendipity brought me something on Facebook that turned into something by email that lead me last night to a group of musicians who play jazz in a Northampton apartment every Monday night. It was a Meet Up ,and I now realize that I have former Vermont Governor Howard Dean to […]
Detroit: An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff
I picked up a book at Horizon Books in Traverse City. I was amazed to see that this bookstore cafe is open from 7 am til 11 pm Seven Days a Week. Wow! The book is about a city four and a half hours south, Detroit. And it’s clear from […]
Sarah Landry Ryder: Keeping It Moving At The Redheads
We were touring up the Leelanau peninsula and looking for a place for lunch. Mike Norton, my local guide, said he had heard about a place with good food and a good reputation. When we got to Lake Leelanau, we swung into The Redheads, a cafe and food emporium run […]
Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula: A Day by the Lakes
I love discovering new places and today’s excursion onto the Leelanau peninsula outside of Traverse City, Michigan was a fascinating series of discoveries. I never knew about the vast fishery of the Great Lakes and that only native Americans are allowed to fish for chub, whitefish, lake trout and salmon […]