Mae Travels

I want to start with a very moving poem that I first heard at a reading by Allen Ginsberg around 20 years ago. He chanted the poem while pla...

My book club is meeting later this week to discuss Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Most of the questions a...

This weekend we did some very nice birdwatching. We were successful in photographing several new birds, including snow buntings and snow gee...

At Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge near Saginaw yesterday we enjoyed driving around the loop designed for vistas over the marshlands and...

We loved the art collection at the Barnes Foundation today, but Mona Lisa always deserves a special shout-out! Here are the gift shop items ...

Arnold Road just into Jackson County is the location of Watkins Lake (confusingly sometimes called Thorn Lake) We spent the morning ther...

How many genres can you fit into just one book? Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix manages to include three or four of them -- seamlessly. The ...

Bill Bryson's recent book One Summer: America, 1927 , is a very enjoyable treatment of what it must have been like to live through the...

The popular book My Promised Land : The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit deserves its reputation. The portraits of Israeli indi...

My new Mona Lisa Piggy Bank, a hand-made ceramic from Peru, purchased at Peaceable Kingdom in downtown Ann Arbor. I'm so delighted w...

The Dutch countryside is splendid; it looks like a series of painting from the Dutch Golden Age. We loved windmills, sheep and cows, ca...