Go up along the eastern side of Lake Michigan, steer northeast when the land bends away at Point Betsie, and you come before long to Sleeping Bear Point–an incredible flat-topped sand dune rising five hundred...

This couldn’t be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading on the...

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for...

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

Meanwhile she’s coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She’s definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.She escorts me to a table full of people and presents me. She introduces...

Building and supporting these local economies is critical to our bottom line. As repeatedly proven by Building Alliances for Local Living Economies (BALLE), spending at a locally owned business on average keeps 68 out of...

Isn’t this Michigan?”She laughed, “Oh oui monsieur, but the French came to Paradis more than cent ans…a hundred years ago.””And they still speak French?””But we are French.””Aren’t you American?”She shrugged, “No one truly conquers the...