Morel mushrooms do grow right in the dunes, fyi 😄 #sleepingbeardunes #leelanau

Pierce Stocking Drive is open! #sleepingbeardunes #leelanau

The high trail linking Empire Bluffs to Stormer Rd bluffs is open, and it's spectacular. #leelanau #sleepingbeardunes

Sturgeon Bay ice and sunset.

Water Bearer Coffee (Best little coffee shop south of the 45th parallel.) #traversecity #michigan

Bloomberg with their finger on the bougie pulse. Look at that sad face! #aminobody

From NY Times reporting on a Cabinet meeting in which Musk was sidelined. Duffy is Sec. of Transportation. #wehadbindersfullofgeniuses!

Eminent Writing Teacher Peter Elbow died in early February, but published notice came out only days ago. He really shook up the field in positive ways, and Elbow's instructional materials still work well with FYC students, I can attest. Here he is with a student at Stony Brook. 🪷🪷

The trail from Stormer Road is packed down and walkable. ✨✨✨ #leelanau #sleepingbeardunes

The dawn Redwood outside of my office window, loving real winter. Up in Michigan winter has set in for the first time in many years, sustained cold and snow cover, icy, quiet, remote -- as it was when I grew up here in Leelanau County.

"Experts on authoritarianism advise keeping a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember."

Point Betsie Sunset

Festive and foggy Chicago

Arcade bear melancholy

Esch Road Beach, Otter Creek bending south. #sleepingbeardunes #michigan

Cloudbreaks at Stormer Road Bluff #sleepingbeardunes

Best Little Coffee Shop: Water Bearer Coffee, Hall St. #traversecity #michigan

From Overlook 10, off Pierce Stocking Drive. #sleepingbeardunes

Whoops, nothing to see here, just OpenAI partnering with a weapons maker...

Winter up here in Northern Michigan

Holiday travelers, O'Hare.

Stands of Red Pine in Platte Plains Area, Sleeping Near Dunes National Lakeshore

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

First sun in a few days but the gale is still on 45-50 mph.

Hidalgo County, New Mexico

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore