Archives in Category: Small Town Life

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Club Set

Posted on July 1, 2005

For the second Friday in a row, Earl and I have dined at the local country club. Or, I should say, one of the local country clubs. It’s been an interesting experience.

Long before Earl and I arrived in St.

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Drought

Posted on June 29, 2005

According to local weather sources, Southwestern Michigan is in an official drought. I checked Google® to see what the actual definition of drought is and learned that one way to describe it is “A time when rainfall and runoff are

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Hot

Posted on June 27, 2005

The hot days and sticky nights that Earl dreams about in the cold of January have arrived with a vengeance. Yesterday, the thermometer hit the mid-nineties, and today is equally warm. I hesitate to check in with the local weatherman

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Lightning Bugs

Posted on June 26, 2005

They’re God’s flashlights or Tinkerbell’s dearest friends. So why do children capture them and put them in jars? On the face of it, it seems cruel.

But I think it’s because lightning bugs – also known as June bugs because

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Ritual

Posted on April 25, 2005

It was merely coincidence this afternoon that I entered the local supermarket just as the high school, which is exactly across the street from the store, let out for the day. By the time I gathered the couple items I’d

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Spring

Posted on March 4, 2005

Every time I write about the pending emergence of Spring, it goes underground. Case in point: a few weeks back I wrote about the subtle nuances I saw during a lull in early February, a lull where geese flourished and

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Chinatown

Posted on March 2, 2005

Years ago there was a movie called “Chinatown” which featured Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. On the surface, it was a murder mystery; but underneath it was about power and who exerts it. Water and its uses formed the basis

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Rabbit

Posted on February 20, 2005

From a distance I wasn’t sure if it was a dirty mound of snow or something else. Even with binoculars, it was hard to tell; so I pressed Earl into service. After all, being a former Chicago policeman gives him

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Lunker’s

Posted on January 15, 2005

If you are born and raised in Southwestern Michigan, there’s more than a fifty-fifty chance that you love the outdoors. And, if you love the outdoors, there are even better odds that you have been to Lunker’s in Edwardsburg.

Now

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Party Time

Posted on December 6, 2004

‘Tis the season for that annual event, the holiday blank party. For the word ‘blank’ you can substitute office, block, neighborhood, cookie exchange, tree trimming, or a bevy of other words that provide a roadmap of who is coming and

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