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Tag Archives: travel

Non fighting words

Maybe one of the reasons I keep feeling that I’m fighting the same battles is that I do things at the same time of day. I write in the morning, even when I’d rather be doing yoga or meditating or getting out with the dog, but I seem to have worked this habit into my […]

Posted byMTMarch 30, 2012April 4, 2012Posted inStory projectTags: Dave, David Turrentine, house, love, taxes, travel5 Comments on Non fighting words

The undeciders

Maybe it makes more sense to a decider. I shot my wad on the way up to Bay City. We were closing in on lunch time, and I remembered a café near New Buffalo that I’d eaten at a few years ago. I didn’t have to actually make that decision, just suggest it. But when […]

Posted byMTOctober 4, 2011October 4, 2011Posted inStory projectTags: Dave, film, friends, Kismet, Kyle, travel3 Comments on The undeciders

Mrs. Libman disposes

No story today, but there’s this: Yesterday I got on my bike and rode out to the highway, not sure where I was headed. I rode up M-22 a mile or two, terrified the few times a car passed. There’s a good shoulder but I was still convinced I was invisible. I saw a sign […]

Posted byMTSeptember 3, 2011July 21, 2015Posted inStory projectTags: biking, Ruby, travel1 Comment on Mrs. Libman disposes

The shape of things to become

This morning I put my iPhone in the dresser drawer. I’m going to try to do without it for a day, and if that works, two days. It feels ridiculous to be in a place where I don’t need to be connected, and yet I can’t stop checking weather and email and Facebook and rock […]

Posted byMTSeptember 1, 2011September 1, 2011Posted inStory projectTags: Lake Michigan, travel4 Comments on The shape of things to become

Me and David Hasslehoff

I can handle hard work. I can handle tough choices. But when it’s hassle-y, when it comes to fitting two bikes in the car, taking them out and putting them in again in a slightly different way, I want to rip my scalp off. I resent the time it takes to even complain about it. […]

Posted byMTAugust 30, 2011September 1, 2011Posted inStory projectTags: biking, Dave, family, Lake Michigan, travel7 Comments on Me and David Hasslehoff

The comforts of not being home

Today on our way up the lake coast, we ran into Frank and Fern at Ray’s drive in. They were sitting at a picnic table outside. They said we’d just missed Ruby and Roy, who’d already gone on. As we sat and ate our perch sandwiches (best in town), they said most years they run into […]

Posted byMTAugust 29, 2011July 21, 2015Posted inStory projectTags: Dave, friends, Lake Michigan, Ruby, travel2 Comments on The comforts of not being home

Please enter through anywhere

When I made reservations and the guy said they had a labyrinth, I imagined some kind of New Age corn maze. But when we walked up from the B&B, there were no walls. Just a ballroom-sized expanse of stones in concentric circles, leading you through one half roundabout to the center, where a post displayed […]

Posted byMTJuly 11, 2011July 11, 2011Posted inStory projectTags: Dave, family, Kansas, labyrinth, travel5 Comments on Please enter through anywhere

Things to remember for next time

I feel in reserve. I am sitting in a B&B drinking coffee. It’s seven a.m. We need to figure out how to get a Pizza Hut pizza to Dave’s grandmother before her normal lunchtime of 11:30. Pizza Hut opens at 11. Grandmother expects to go out, but after spending the day with her yesterday, neither […]

Posted byMTJuly 8, 2011August 30, 2011Posted inStory projectTags: Dave, family, travel4 Comments on Things to remember for next time

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