michigan

Learning About Our State

by beth February 8, 2012

We have been learn­ing more about Michi­gan.  We love Michi­gan.  State stud­ies help con­nect us to our past, our cul­ture, our diver­sity and way of life.  It pro­vides ground­ing in who we are and a way to begin to under­stand the world around us. We are read­ing about the oral tra­di­tions passed from gen­er­a­tion to […]

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Tastes Like Fall

by beth October 26, 2011

It is not Michi­gan in Octo­ber with­out a visit to a local Cider Mill.  So we had to stop before head­ing back after Sunday’s Flash Mob Amer­ica trib­ute to Jevon. My word these fresh & warm donuts were good.  Oh so good! Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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True Grit

by beth September 26, 2011

Some­thing about the grit of a city street or park­ing lot feels dif­fer­ent than the grit out­side a city. I can’t explain it. It just does. And I believe that not only does Detroit grit feel dif­fer­ent, but Detroit also has some amaz­ingly bad-ass true grit in the peo­ple who walk her streets. Did you like […]

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Roll Out The Barrel

by beth September 7, 2011

This week­end we took the fam­ily down to the Ham­tramck Labor Day Fes­ti­val.  We went at the start when the day was just get­ting going and peo­ple were fil­ter­ing in from here & there.  Ham­tramck, like many cities, has suf­fered a lot with a down­fall of the local econ­omy, shifts from close knit urban edge […]

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