The Boss Always Gives Good Show
If I’m here tonight, and you’re here tonight, then they’re here with us… Bruce Springsteen, April 12, The Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan My first concert as a teenager was Bruce, Born In the USA,...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Normal
Saturday Night Live Fifty Shades of Grey spoof Finished book #2 yesterday. And it amazes me how many thoughts I have – not about the erotica, which of course I’ve gotten used to. (It’s much hotter when...
View ArticleComing Home to Roost
As great as vacation is, it is truly wonderful to be home. When you love your life, that’s the thing of it: every moment is a treasure. Our plane touched down on Detroit tarmac yesterday in bright sun...
View ArticleDevotional Silence
I didn’t write much last week, the first time that’s happened since I committed to blog daily in May. Oops! If we are to communicate, we must keep up our end of the conversation, right? And when one...
View ArticleThe Stupidity of Politics
On the way to the airport this morning, NPR critiqued the recent speeches by GOP nominees (I can’t bear to name them here) and cited factual errors on both sides of the congressional carpet. The...
View ArticleMore Than Hockey: Missive from Hockeytown
I live in a town besieged by a bad rap after years of Devil’s Night fires, crime and a city population diminishing greatly as young talent fled for the suburbs or other urban centers deemed more...
View ArticleWhat You Get with Each Purchase – Delta Airlines vs. US Airways
I always fly Delta because Detroit is a hub, and I accrue miles that I can use toward future flights. The Delta terminal is bigger, newer, with more flights and more direct flights, and so it has...
View ArticleCheering for the Home Team
There were far too many fans in Chicago Blackhawks jerseys yesterday at the Detroit Red Wings game. Never mind that the game was a pathetic excuse for an athletic contest. Less than five minutes in,...
View ArticleA Coffee Cup with My Name On It
My mother and I found it, spelled my way – Lynne – at the Renaissance Center in a gift shop senior year of high school. You never find mugs with my name on it, at least not spelled my way, … Continue...
View ArticleWhat’s It All For?
Sometimes I wonder what we’re doing here. Really, what are we doing here? What is the point of our days and our work and our emotional roller coasters and our waking and our laying down? We are born...
View ArticleI’m Not Convinced Detroit is Dead
In the wake of Detroit’s bankruptcy filing last week, I’ve seen people posting on Facebook and writing in publications about how sad it is that the Motor City is “dying” a slow death of destruction,...
View ArticleAnything Worthwhile Takes Time to Build
“You were right,” she said in the phone message. “You said I’d see things pick up steadily around 6 months, that one thing would lead to the next, and it is!” The client – Alisa Peskin-Shepherd, a...
View ArticleVows
Every Sunday morning, my husband pours his coffee and reads the heavy-hitting sections of the New York Times. I read the Style section, breezing through the essays until I immerse in Vows, the wedding...
View ArticleMichigan and Its Bad Rap
Everywhere I go, I meet people from Michigan. And everywhere I go, I meet people who have heard the absolute worst about my hometown. During my travels of the last few weeks, I commiserated with...
View ArticleDevotion in Troy, Ohio
“I love my God…” — Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, jazzing and jumping around on stage last night in Troy, Ohio, the headliner of the first day of this Gentlemen of the Road Stopover concert...
View ArticlePassion Inspires
I had just about the best weekend ever. Dan and I sat in the humidity of Troy, Ohio, marveling at the music and the transformation of a beautiful small town into a landscape … Continue...
View ArticleSee & Be Seen
Tonight is the charity preview for the North American International Auto Show, Detroit’s big automotive splash. It’s a black-tie shindig that tons of my friends attend year after year, and even one...
View ArticleNow That I’m Home
The trip home was a lot harder than the trip to India. For one, you have the enthusiasm and adrenaline pumping on the way there – an adventure ahead! Can’t wait! Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!! On the...
View ArticleAn Interview with Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
One of the first questions I asked Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University and reporter for The Times of Israel, was why there has been a consistent history of world news media...
View ArticleThe Moon, Hidden from View
Yesterday, the snow came down in quiet falling, blanketing the world in white. The moon, hidden from view, pulled the marionette streams of bad behavior, and people opened their mouths to reveal ugly....
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