Writing and photography from the Great Lakes region
There are people who haven't seen a Great Lakes lake freighter. Those who have no idea the pyramids of coal and iron ore it can…
I prowl the backroads in a dusty, battered old Ford truck that nobody would give a second look, especially folks of the law enforcement persuasion.…
The downtown branch of the Spokane Public Library housed 16,312 children’s books circa 2013, enough to last my five-year-old middle of three kiddos, there for…
The Pit: A Story of Chicago Frank Norris Belt Publishing (Belt Revivals Series) Many of the great Chicago books revolve around people on the bottom…
The great lake sits there alone, just before dark, calm yet forbidding while the fat old sun behind me with its rubescent glow of dying…