Stone Dams
A poem about the creek by Grand Blanc Middle School: childhood, the natural world, and our attempts to control what can’t be controlled.
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Second Hour Aperitivo: The Italian Amaro Nonino Grapefruit Cocktail You Need to Try
Each year I try to create a unique cocktail. Last year it was a Brown Sugar Pecan Old Fashioned that I’m told nobody else has come close to. This year, I turned to Italy. The […]
Freed from the Clock: Siffre’s Cave, Buddhist Moments, and Heidegger’s Lived Time
When Michel Siffre climbed out of a glacial cave in the French Alps on September 14, 1962, he was genuinely shocked. The French geologist had been underground for two months, alone in total darkness, living […]
Haunted Pere Cheney Cemetery, Michigan: History, Witch Legend & My October Visit
Note: An abridged version of this essay appears on Atlas Obscura. On a moonless night in Northern Michigan, the dark pines whisper an old name, Pere Cheney, a vanished village whose only surviving landmark is […]