I’ve taken to straddling our space heater. I’ve lived in Michigan long enough that I have routines now.  In the dark dark Michigan morning:  I wake up. I lay in bed looking up.  I stand up.  I waddle over to our space heater.  I straddle our space heater and let warm infuse me from all […]

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In ten years I will live in Winnipeg and work as an ornithologist. I’m sure the town of Holland is preparing to drop the ball and ring in the new year, and a quick read of the Holland Sentinel’s reader comments about New Years Eve activities shows that my fellow citizens are either drunk driving, […]

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Why is it that airplane bathrooms highlight and magnify facial blemishes better than any other environment? I don’t mind a bit of clutter. Some may say that I have a high tolerance for piles.  Clutter is a sign of projects in motion, thoughts in development, moments of time on pause.  If clutter bothers you, blur […]

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The California Department of Motor Vehicles sent me a notice to my new address in Michigan letting me know that I needed to submit a change of address form for the same new address. I have trouble picturing the genius at the other end.  I wonder where he or she goes for lunch, what type […]

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As I walked to my local coffee shop today, I counted. I’m partial to one side of the street in downtown Holland, MI.  I’ve tried the other side, but really, I have no interest in it other than looking in at the seniors eating bagged lunches at the downtown retirement home.  Brown paper lunch bags […]

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