Mary McNair 1920 - 2010 (I took this photo at her 90th birthday party in November.) You may remember when, back in June, I wrote about my g...

Some days I just have to pinch myself. How lucky I am to live on Mackinac. I hope all your holiday wishes come true this year...

As I was culling the catalogue pile the other day, I came across these; two catalogues in which virtually every item had been circled. When ...

I love hand-me-downs. Love them; and this one has been quite popular lately. My cousin sent this beautiful doll house home with us last su...

Dearest Santa, Thank you, thank you, thank you ! Thanks to all this wonderful snow, Mackinac is sure to have a white Christmas this year. Si...

Dear Santa, Please send Mackinac Island some snow. I'm certain you can imagine just how cold it is riding a bicycle in nine degrees weat...

We came home this weekend to a smidgen of snow. Not much really, perhaps an inch or so on the grass. So, of course, the kids didn't wan...

Here it is - the photo I promised of the new trees. The gentlemen planting them told me they are a hybrid maple called "Autumn Blaze...

  Take that holy shirt. You know, the shirt she ripped a hole in the very first time she wore it. Add some cute fabric.   Finish with som...

It's no longer a good idea to hide things up high where I think my daughter can't get at them, because she can. And even if she c...

Apparently bangs really get in the way in kindergarten. My son went to school the other day looking like this: but came home looking like th...

No, McDonald's isn't opening a restaurant on the island, but we did get treated to a breathtaking double rainbow yesterday. Thank go...

It's fall on Mackinac Island, and that means beautiful fall colors and the end of the tourist season. It also means vehicle permits can ...

We've had gusts up to 60 mph (about 97 km/hr) today on the Straits of Mackinac. It's so windy that right now the bridge is closed to...

Yet another reason why I love this book ... The bagels are more time consuming than the bread since they have to be boiled first, but they...

The diagnosis is official - nerve deafness. My daughter has nerve deafness - thank goodness it is just in one ear. The diagnosis wasn't ...

I love my son. Right now my son loves fairies. So, logically, when he told me he wanted a fairy themed birthday party, I agreed. (Two years ...

I made more of these . I had collected ten pair of rain / wind / athletic pants (from my favorite "donation only" thrift shop) tha...

Have you ever seen something that struck you as really odd? This little fly did just that the other day. I noticed it in the bay window in ...

...to make and frost enough cupcakes for an island wedding. You've got to love it when an entire community comes together. Recently a lo...