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December 8, 2022 — One morning last weekend, when Steph and I were running errands in Traverse City, we got a call from Colebrook. “There is a man at our door asking if he can cut down a pine in our yard for his Christmas Tree.” Steph and I looked at each other with alarm. …
December 1, 2022 — Steph and I were having a lazy Sunday morning. As we talk, powerful gusts of wind blast against the weeping willows. Their branches drape in the calm until a big gust swings them out like a wind whipped flag. Gust after gust hurls through the yard and I watch wrinkled brown …
Nov. 23, 2022 — On Saturday afternoon, I pulled on a thick fire-red shirt and an orange hat and grabbed my skis for the first time this year. I drove to my favorite spot to backcountry telemark ski and studied the woods to make sure there were no hunters to disturb. Normally, I would be …
This year marks the 10th anniversary of our 31 Days of Giving annual campaign. Throughout the past decade, we have had the humbling opportunity to provide grants to dozens of well-deserving organizations — from loyal stewards of our climate to big-hearted groups that care for our neighbors who need a bit of a hand up …
Cherry Republic lost the most iconic employee we ever had — our dear Glen Arbor Campus GM Kathy Baarstad. She embodied our precious values of Life, Liberty, Beaches and Pie more perfectly than anyone that’s ever worked here. We were fortunate to hire Kathy Baarstad 15 years ago to help us with the Holiday rush …
Oct. 21, 2022 — It is Wednesday in Amsterdam, and we are in transit home to Glen Arbor. Yesterday, we saw pictures Hawthorn took after the big wind and rainstorm that ripped through the north. The back of my truck is smashed and undrivable. On Monday night, a huge branch from a 200-year-old oak fell …
Oct. 13, 2022 — Steph and I are hiking The Highland Way in Scotland. Scotland is similar to Northern Michigan, other than there is not enough soil on this UK island to absorb the daily rain, so creeks and rivers are running every which way. We can’t hike a hundred yards without the energizing sounds …
Oct. 7, 2022 — On Sunday, Hawthorn and I watched the latest episode of The Rings of Power. We were munching on a bag of popcorn and enjoying the show when Sonny thought he’d join us. So our big dog snaked his way between our coffee table and couch and under teenage legs and positioned …
Sept. 29, 2022 — I don’t ever remember such a profound shift from summer 80s to the windy, wet and cold of fall. It is beautiful — these days of big clouds over hillsides with the first hints of orange. Of huge waves scouring clean the remnants of summer beach fires, sand castles and footprints. …
Sept. 23, 2022 — Early Monday morning, after a workout, I went straight to Lake Michigan for a swim to cool off. I tried a new pathway through little shore dunes covered with white pines, bearberry and creeping juniper. There are a hundred of these pathways to the beach on Good Harbor Bay, and I …
