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“I haven't finished a thing since I started my life, don't feel much like starting now. Walking out lonely has worked like a charm, I'm the only one I have to let down ( Read more... )

“Train wheels runnin' thru the back of my memory,
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese.
Someday, life's gonna be smooth like a rhapsody,
When I paint my masterpiece.”


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Ah, the sweet relief of structure, combined with beauty and history, and mixed with the smell of horse piss and manure! Welcome to Mackinac Island, our reason for taking this tour, our Pyramids of Giza, our personal wonder. Below are pictures of The Grand Hotel (longest front porch in the world) the Main Street, taken from our ferry at nine this ( Read more... )

This is a beautiful view, a vintage Oldsmobile headed to a car show in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula. So American. We were not in the UP when I snapped this shot, but passing through the Huron National forest on North Interstate 75, en route to Mackinaw City. I like to imagine that this is the very same orange Oldsmobile that Mom and I ( Read more... )

I get on Chuck’s ass a lot about budgeting our time so that he doesn’t create a stress-inducing and endless list of unrealizable plans for one day or one weekend, and then I do exactly what I tell him not to do. ( Click here for more )

When Mom told me that I’d never have to drive longer than five or six hours a day because MapQuest told her so, I really wanted to believe it. But MapQuest doesn’t take coffee and picture stops into account,


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Mom and I don’t hit the road until tomorrow morning; but today I experienced the mini, road trip-the road trip that I take every time I come “home.” The first time I brought my ex-husband here in 1994, as we crossed the bridge over the Susquehanna River-less than a mile from my parents’ house-he took in the cliffs along 92 and said, “It’s like you ( Read more... )

June 23, 2012

The house is a mess. The yard is a mess. I love saying that-the yard is a mess. I have a yard, and the yard was useful today. ( Click here for more )

Mom and I are taking a road trip. This will be our second ( Read more... )