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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: There is still immense joy
In the spring of 2022, I ticked an item off my bucket list: taking a circle tour around Lake Superior—the wildest, most remote of the Great Lakes. I started my trip in Houghton, Michigan, and drove westward in a clockwise circle. I know that Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but Minnesotans will have…
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: An unexpected encounter
I had an unexpected encounter in norther Wisconsin, staying entirely off-grid for the first time.
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: Houghton and the Porcupine Mountains
When we set aside our daily routines for a few days or a week at a time, when life isn’t prescribed by work or school or social obligations, who are we? I remember when my family took vacations in a quiet nook of the northwestern corner of Michigan’s Mitten. I would find myself wishing for…
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Taking the Long Way
After the year I’ve had, I’ve made the Chicks’ The Long Way Around into something of a personal anthem. A year ago August, I told my partner of 10 years that I was leaving him. It was one of the most painful things I’ve ever done. Writing about it is still painful. But last summer,…