By Mark | December 3, 2013 A few weeks ago, kind of on a whim, I reached out to a local musician and asked if he’d be willing to talk about a recent vacation he’d taken to Gettysburg. It went well. I enjoyed hearing about something that he was insanely passionate about, and I think he enjoyed, for a change, talking […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Avenue of the Giants, bartending, Big Love, Big Sur, Bill Hicks, birth stories, blue green algae, burgers, buruli ulcer, Carmel, Carnival Cruise, community service, consumption, cruise, crying, East of Eden, Eli Eisman, epiphanies, fast food, Garden City, gardening, gated communities, Glen Campbell, Grey Goose, Halliburton, Hee Haw, Hee Haw Honeys, hippies, how to be a better human being, Iggy Pop, interviews, John Steinbeck, Joseph Campbell, Lake Michigan, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, Lust for Life, malaria, martinis, Matt Jones, Michigan Musicians on Vacation, Misty Lyn, Misty Lyn Bergeron, musicians, musicians breaking the law, nature, polygamy, private property, private roads, Rawlins, redwoods, Rhinestone Cowboy, Salt Flats, San Francisco, Seva, Siddhartha, solitude, spiritual quests, spirituality, sun poisoning, Timothy Monger, travel, travel tips, trees, Utah, vacations, vans, vegetarianism, vertigo, Zen, Zion National Park. | By Mark | December 2, 2013 Here, on the occasion of my son’s second birthday, are ten random thoughts that I wrote to him last night. As I suspect that he may misplace the letter that I handed him as he went screaming through the living room, I thought that perhaps I’d reprint it here as well. 1. Arlo, I’m loving […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs | Also tagged birth stories, birthdays, charm, Clementine, empathy, Freeda, Harry Houdini, hot water, lamps, Linette, memories, midwifery, milestones, natural childbirth, remorse, totally quotable Linette, Twilight Zone, water birth | By Mark | November 1, 2013 Having done the Halloween thing with the kids, and listened to both The Shaggs and Screamin Jay Hawkins, I’m now settling down in front of the computer to watch my annual allotment of scary movies. Sadly, John Carpenter’s Halloween doesn’t seem to be available on Netflix, so it looks like I’ll be watching either The […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Pop Culture | Also tagged 16 and Pregnant, Affordable Care Act, Bernie Sanders, candy, Captain Kirk, childhood obesity, Clementine, costumes, Duck Dynasty, health care, health care reform, Honey Boo Boo, Kim Kardashian, North Dakota, Obamacare, reality television, single-payer system, trick-or-treating, William Shatner | By Mark | September 22, 2013 update: Our night was spent disassembling Alro’s crib, now that it no longer accomplishes the objective of keeping him trapped inside, putting up a gate across the doorway to his room, and trying to convince him, as best that we could, that there’s nothing more awesome than laying peacefully in a “big boy” bed and […]
By Mark | September 2, 2013 I’d wanted to write an epic post about the meaning of Labor Day, but then I read Paul Krugman’s piece in today’s New York Times, realized that he’d done a better job of it than I could ever hope to, and decided to spend my time instead wondering around Ypsilanti with my camera. What follows […]
Posted in History, Photographs, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1894, A Day in the Life of Ypsilanti, cicadas, Eric Cantor, ferret, frat boys, Grover Cleveland, Huron River, Labor Day, missing pets, Paul Krugman, Pullman strike, working class, yarn bombing | 
