Big Waves - an essay about what happens when stories matter more than the truth (January 2008)

The Gentlemen of the Road
by: Michael Chabon, a book review (January 2008)

The Jesus of Suburbia
by: Mike Erre, a book review (January 2007)

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art
by: Crystal L. Downing, a book review (July 2006)

A Church Not Made With Hands: Christianity as Spiritual Experience, by Michael Roden, a book review (February 06)

The Mind's Past, by Michael S. Gazzaniga, a book review (9.5.05)

Underworld, by Don DeLilo, a book review (8.26.05)

Land of Delight If you live in a tourist destination what's your excuse for not having the time of your life? (8.25.05)

The Thunderbird a visit to a venerable local tourist institution (8.22.05)

War of the Worlds a review of Spielberg's latest movie (8.13.05)

Forgotten Signs of the M-204 Corridor a retrospective exercise in local consumer culture (8.11.05)

Review of "The Big One", by Michael Moore - This was the first ever, original, ur-review of this movie, seen in a preview screening. All the other reviews are derivative!

The Island - the persistence of landscape

Whip it Good! - a primer on surviving winter in Northern Michigan

Redemption Songs - a rumination of the promises of technology

God's Country - a diatribe against corporate greed

Gathering Time - how to appreciate what you have, even if you aren't a rich tourist

Clouds for Dinner - book review

Manitou Apple - one of my favorite pieces, written to my daughter

Seasonal Break - fiction

Extreme Ice - fact or fiction? you be the judge

Local Hero - memories of Hemingway

Remission - ode to autumn

Don't Cry for me Cincinnati - yet another rant on tourism and consumer culture

The Passing of an Era - a baseball memory

What I Learned in School - rambling review of Bruce Catton's Waiting for the Morning Train

Dimmick's Point - a book review of My Point of View, by Glenn C. Furst

Looking Down - the notion of Michigan, and lifestyle migrants

The Long Winter - fiction

The Gentrification of Leelanau County - the original rant against yuppies and poseurs

Summer Ice - this was the most fun a writer can have and not get in trouble

Words, Words, Words - the sort of thing you might read on a transatlantic flight - pretty bland really

Light in March - poetry

Chicken Shoot - a childhood memory of Christmas presents past, written for my kids

Northern Spirits Distilled - book review

The High Window - book review and tribute to Raymond Chandler's placed based writing