About

Welcome to Moncrieff in Michigan.  Here you’ll find little stories of ordinary life in this lovely state.  Michigan identifies as both midwestern and northern.  We Michiganders feel that the advertising slogan, “Pure Michigan,” is highly appropriate but might hedge a little a la Garrison Keillor and say the state is “pure . . . mostly.”

     We live in Ann Arbor, which is both a college town and a small city.  Our house is in a neighborhood, and we have a dog, so we walk the neighborhood every day.  We also walk regularly through parks and woods, by numerous ponds and a couple creeks, and sometimes along the Huron River.

     I offer the stories in the hope that they’ll entertain you.  Maybe make you smile or feel something or remember. Whether you live here, or used to live here, or haven’t had the pleasure.

     Thanks for reading.