Category: Blog

I just had fresh lawyers for dinner. Like much of what’s found on menus here on Washington Island, lawyers are fish. They have other names in other places — burbot in other...

Mann’s here on Washington Island had contact lens cases and almost anything else one could want, including groceries galore, fishing lures, yogurt, toilets, rugs and more. It’s an old time country store...

I’m on a sleepy island in Lake Michigan – a place without chain restaurants, hotels and other tourism infrastructure. I’m here to research a story for readers who want to make a...

That’s Martha Manning with a tasty triangle of baklava, the sweet honey and walnut pastry given to everyone who visited Athens Bakery on a recent Cleveland ethnic and history tour. The other...

Nostalgia reigned on a recent day spent touring Cleveland with a group of seniors from Breckenridge Village — many of whom had spent a half century or more living in Northeast Ohio...

A few blogs back I wrote about the lovely breakfast I enjoyed at the Lake Shore Bed & Breakfast & Spa in Alberta. I sat in Kathy Gette’s living room on the...

Last week in Alberta I met the Muellers and Glasscocks who were driving their Honda Goldwing motorcycles more than 5,000 miles to Alaska. It wasn’t hard to spot the folks who belonged...