Essay: Donating the Hildner-Bearce Nature Preserve

Thoughts about remarkable generosity, land and family at this Little Traverse Conservancy nature preserve near Indian River. Full article... ( Hike Essays Outdoors Petoskey Hike Hike )

The Legacy of Worms

Ruminations on the esoteric and sentimental value of worm fishing. Full article... ( Fish Essays )

Imprinted by the Northwoods

I return to my childhood cabin in the Upper Peninsula each year, like salmon to the streams of their beginnings. Full article... ( Essays Essays Upper Peninsula )

An Orchard Upbringing

From there I could watch the house without my parents seeing me, to see how long it took for them to miss me and begin crying to the cherry gods for my return. Full article... ( Essays Essays )

Breaking the Green

I grew up with the long-term risk it had taken to save the farm with this precarious crop from California, and with a sense of what a field—and family—can do. Full article... ( Essays Traverse )

Summer’s Structure

The porch was the origin of trust, imagination and the closeness. Full article... ( Essays Essays )

Asleep with Bees

Behind the curtain of night birds, summer breezes, insect and moth patterings, I hear their hum like dark cream. It is so much a part of everything that it seems like a sound from my body. Full article... ( Essays )

Refusing Spring

All too often, they wait too long, and their shanties sink to become boats that must be paddled home. Full article... ( Essays Fish )

In Search of Bluegills

Snow Days

An essay about Ken Marten's love of snow and particularly snow days when he was a child. Full article... ( Essays )

Waterworld

An essay about the power of water in the writer's life and the compass it provides to Lake Michigan and home. Full article... ( Essays Essays )