Don Miller Gets His Due
More from the West
Bob and family are camping and traveling in the Western U.S. for 2 weeks. Here’s two more stories from their adventures.
Yesterday afternoon, we went on a third hike in Joshua Tree National Park. This one was called Jumbo Rocks. The boys dashed down the trail ahead of us. Around us were boulders stacked in every […]
Arizona Adventures
It’s 10 pm and I just realized I left the kids pajamas in a suitcase in an outside compartment of the camper. It’s our first full day in AZ and I’m exhausted, so I say, “We’re sleeping in our underwear.” The boys are fine with that decision and we squirm into our sleeping bags and […]
The Future of the Republic
We are planning our projects for the year. Would you like to chime in on what work should be our priority? Serving baked goods and ice creams in our TC store too? Getting pies baked in Ann Arbor? Offering tours and contests in Glen Arbor? A Cherry Republic in Shanghai or Washington DC? Sound off […]
Renewal.
Steph is on a National Outdoor Leadership School adventure in the mountains of Arizona. The kids are nearly 5 and 7 so she now has a chance to focus on her own personal growth and renewal. The new year is a great time to do this.
Is it life’s own law that we humans tend to […]
Goals for the New Year
As the New Year arrived, I have been working with my staff on our three year goals. And we put some big growth goals in our A3 that left one of my staff asking “why go to all that trouble to grow Cherry Republic? What’s the meaning of it all?”
There is a fine line to […]
How do You Give?
We would love your input on our giving. Please email us a few paragraphs about who you will be donating to this December and why; and if you give your time to the group as well.
Starting on this Saturday, December 1st, we will send out checks of $500 to $10,000 to organizations in Northern Michigan […]
November Up North
We had some wild weather in the past month. My friend Charlie Crouch snapped this photo on Sleeping Bear Bay during a big storm.
Here is a video of the winds 1000 miles from Hurricane Sandy.
Colebrook and Hawthorn OD’d on candy.
The boys playing on a giant nest of sticks.
Hawthorn posing with a hatchet before […]