Keeping It Simple I finally sat on my rocking chair. It had been in my bedroom In the same spot For more than five years. Never had I...

JUST AFTER THANKSGIVING I SAW NINETY-THREE-YEAR OLD former Michigan governor, William G. Milliken, in a small retail gift shop in his...

Mary had a little lamb Whose fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went The lamb would surely go. Sarah J. Hale, 1830 YOU’VE...

LOUISE IS IN HER SECOND YEAR at Scarsdale High School. She receives consistently poor marks, and had to drop Latin. She frequently comes...

MY SONS AND I HAVE ENJOYED a delicious Chicken Jalapeño soup that we’ve had for years at Art’s Tavern. The iconic tavern is in the heart...

"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau "Well, then what is it?"...

Henry Anderson Adams Born September 13, 2017 How cool is that! THE MAGIC OF TECHNOLOGY WAS EVIDENCED this week when I received a text...

ORNAMENTAL GRASSES ARE A FAVORITE OF MINE. I became fond of them in the 1990s as their popularity soared in the U.S. and I set out to...

MY FIRST DAY AT ALBION COLLEGE was a sunny Sunday afternoon in the late summer of 1967. My parents were helping me get settled in my...

I HAVE DISCOVERED OVER THE YEARS that most of us have a secret spot to which we are especially attracted. It could be a fishing hole...

(Legacy Essays, 2017) MY YOUNGEST SON DAVE AND I STUMBLED upon a traveling carnival in the harbor town of Frankfort. It was a Thursday...

YOU MIGHT RECALL THE LUNCHROOM LADIES that prepared your meals back in junior high and high school. A couple decades ago I remember these...

Late summer's garden beauties. Goldenrod, Brown-eyed Susan's, white Phlox, petunia, potato vine and a hidden dahlia. On my porch...