Letter From Michiana: Deer in the yard
Fifty years ago, a deer sighting here was rare enough to be considered an almost mystical occurrence.
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Letter From Michiana: Closing the porch
That tarp is as sure a sign of seasonal change as gold on a maple tree.
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Letter From Michiana: Long Beach Party wins
A local election like this one can be unsettling. Makes you wonder whether you’re in tune with your neighbors.
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Letter From Michiana: Moon Valley and Stockwell Woods
As kids, we never needed anyone to tell us how special this place was — we could feel it down to the soles of our feet.
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Letter From Michiana: Partying with the Long Beach Community Alliance
The weather was nasty, but people showed up to raise the funds necessary to keep fighting, if that’s what it takes.
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Letter From Michiana: The failure of IDEM and the EPA
Why is it no one seems to care about the poisons being routinely dumped into Lake Michigan?
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Letter From Michiana: Building community through Wild Rose Moon
George is a longtime folksinger and storyteller and so it makes sense he decided to create a venue where those art forms might find a port of call.
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Letter From Michiana: Climate emergency
The problem isn’t how many miles we get to the gallon, or whether recycling really works. The problem has always been about freedom.
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Letter From Michiana: Local healer
I’m sure there are healers — people with a certain gift, an ability to not simply hold what ails you at bay, but make it better — everywhere. It’s just that I’ve never met one until we moved to Michiana.
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Letter From Michiana: Another spill
After having their drinking water threatened yet again, they must have their doubts. Do they have more in common with Yellowstone, or Flint?
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