For many of us, winter brings what is sometimes called the “winter blues” or “cabin fever.”
TRAVERSE CITY — The soaring flames of a five-story-high torch lit up the city’s early morning hours.
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Learning lab open Jan. 27
TRAVERSE CITY — Matt Drost teaches science at Grand Traverse Academy in Traverse City, where he long ago found a way to connect his personal life to science lessons.
Grand Traverse Academy Secondary Principal Michelle Floering recorded this video of students giving a pair of color-corrective glasses to their biology teacher Matt Drost.
Thanks to a perfectly good television set being sidelined by incompatibility with Netflix, we took a trip to the television aisle of a local store.
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Viral internet posts might have a shelf-life, but they never truly go away.
INTERLOCHEN — The average 8-year-old child weighs about 57 pounds — Chaz weighs roughly 170.
TRAVERSE CITY — Maria Heiman knew being part of an exchange program would give her a chance to explore the history and geography of another country.
Women’s Retreat set for March 20-22
When I was in eighth grade a controversy swept through our school. The English teacher, who was a closet beatnik, had assigned her classes to read “Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger.
TRAVERSE CITY — Saying ‘thank you’ didn’t seem like enough.
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I’m pretty sure the Farmers’ Almanac is overrated as far as weather forecasts go.
Each January, I begin the year researching what’s happening around the globe in the disability community. I especially want to read the work of other writers with disabilities. Happily, some of those writers are also interested in this column and our region.
In spite of my extensive acquaintance with American literature of the 19th century, I never read “Little Women.”
EMPIRE — Two years ago about 20 people became American citizens in a naturalization ceremony held at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Reiki session set for today
So we went out to breakfast the other day. One of my favorite things to do is hunker down with the Sunday paper over coffee while we wait for our food to come, and I went to get one from the box outside the restaurant.
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If I learned anything last year, it was to not believe anything I read.
Suddenly this poem spoke to me again out of my past. Out of the past. Yeats, a staunch supporter of the Irish Nationalist cause, is thinking of how he should write, as an Irishman, for his people.
TRAVERSE CITY — The door to D-6 is locked.
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I think I’ll turn my basement into a workout center this year.
Goal setting in the new year is the standard for many.
TRAVERSE CITY — Losing can be winning — and just in time for spring break.
‘Share the Love’ campaign set
TRAVERSE CITY — Renowned local litter picker Norm Fred has a reputation as a volunteer extraordinaire.
Christmas. Traditions. The words are singular in and of themselves, but when put together — Christmas traditions — present a never-ending potential for warmth and wonder.
Merriam Webster Dictionary announced that “they” is its word of the year based on the number of times folks looked it up.
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The fantasies and faith of Christmas are woven with traditions that blanket us beneath personal quilts of comfort and joy.
TRAVERSE CITY — Christmas is a religious holiday for some, a secular one for others.
Without the stories, Christmas wouldn’t be half the occasion that we’ve fabricated it into these days. The holidays have a million of them; Santa stories, Scrooge stories, sacred stories and the list goes on.
Yoga and beer
Mom’s maiden name was Mona Arvilla Helmboldt. She was born on August 30, 1928 in Park Lake, now a ghost town. She attended No. 9 School that had two rooms, and was the only girl in a class of six boys. As a young girl she learned to play songs by ear on her guitar or piano, and loved to sing.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Christmas approaches: Imagine families snuggling together, transfixed as they watch “The Polar Express.”
TRAVERSE CITY — Larry Lelito is one of 30 men who make up the Traverse City Honor Guard, a nonprofit run by volunteers.
In the summer of 1989, I interviewed for a teaching position at Northwestern Michigan College. In addition to the typical questions, the department head asked how I would get to work; I drove. Write on the board; I could do that or use an overhead projector. Utilize my desk; positioning it o…
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Today is Black Friday. I will participate by shopping to restock my larder.
The smell of alcohol was coming off his breath even though it was just after 9 o’clock in the morning.
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