Smoke and Water

Shortly after rising, one day this week, I looked out a window and stopped breathing, mid-breath.  Something awful had happened to my vision.  Try as I might—and I tried mightily—I couldn’t focus on anything in the back yard.  A minute later, it dawned on me that I could focus fine on what was in the… Continue reading Smoke and Water

Douglas Lake

     We were fortunate to spend a few days with a daughter and her husband at a cabin Up North this week.  The cabin sits in the woods on Douglas Lake—the small one in Otsego County, not the large one in Charlevoix County—and belongs to the family of one of our daughter’s lifelong friends.  It… Continue reading Douglas Lake