GOLF ENTERED MY LIFE EARLY. As a youngster I was fortunate to learn the game from two avid players disguised as parents. They enjoyed...

DURING THESE LAST FEW MONTHS my spare time has been devoted to the launch of the M 22 Lakeshore Trail. It is a newly created business...

ROBIN MICHAEL ADAIR just turned 70. Whether he is your husband, father, brother, friend, or in my case a kiss’ in cousin, we all know we...

MY FRIEND PEG DIED THIS WEEK. It makes me sad. She was a very young 73. Her four-year battle with breast cancer came to an end after the...

MY COUSIN AND I USED TO CALL EACH OTHER after preparing our first summer BLTs that featured the perfect tomato harvested from our...

MY BELIEF IS SOMEDAY WHEN I AM SIX FEET UNDER my essays will be discovered. Yes, they'll go viral, as they say, catapulting me into fame....

IT HAS TAKEN ME NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS to learn how to eliminate stains on my clothes. I admit I am not careful in my eating habits which...

I'M SITTING IN A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT with a cup of coffee and burrito in hand wondering why I chose to do this? Circumstances, such as...

I LIKE MICHAEL POLLAN’S WRITING, and if we were ever to meet I’m guessing I would like him too. He’s kind of nerdy, and very insightful....

I WISH I COULD AGAIN FIND THE YELLOW MUSTARD used in the 1960s on the hot dogs at Detroit’s Tiger Stadium. If this happened, then I...

I HAVE BEEN RESTING MY KNEE since I “popped” something in it on the third tee during my golf league play last month. As I fell to the...

I’M NOT PLANNING ON GOING BACK to my hometown unless I am summoned by someone’s death. That would be the only event that would pull me...

ASPARAGUS ARE POPPING THROUGH THE GROUND this week in NW Michigan. Our region has several farms that are devoted to these springtime...

CAN YOU BELIEVE I LIKE SAUSAGE GRAVY on warm flaky buttermilk biscuits? I mean I really, really, really like them. It has come to be my...

IT IS STILL TOO EARLY IN SPRING to plant most annual flowers. Except today, I chose to plant a little pot of pansies, confident they will...

I JUST RECALLED A VERY EMOTIONAL MORNING from my early teenage years. I suspect that it had been hidden in my subconscious for all this...

RECENTLY I WAS IN NORTH CAROLINA to meet my new girlfriend's adult children. I thought back to the last time I had been there. It had...

IT TOOK ME YEARS TO FINALLY ACCEPT PROPANE for outdoor cooking. I had been a die-hard “charcoal man,” through the formative years of...

DAD TAUGHT ME SO MUCH about the game of golf. Where do I begin? Athletic skill was important, no question. But more important was the...

IN THE FALL OF 1975 I BOUGHT A LEISURE SUIT in Rochelle, Illinois. It was a pumpkin rust color. My small-town clothier also found a...