Taking Your (indexed) Temperature - 3-15-2002

Windchill, shmind chill. Stop monkeying around, and let weather be weather. With winter behind us and summer ahead, I’d like to take this pause in the seasons to request that the people in charge of the nation’s climate stop monkeying a...

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A Day At The Beach - 8-15-2001

In summer, people go to the beach. Unless they live in Texas, where it’s always summer and summer itself is something else entirely. What I may remember most about my boyhood Christmas vacation to Florida is the sight of my grandfather ...

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What To Watch - 7-1-2001

Tom Kite and crew take to the links July 9-15 when the Ford Senior Players Championship tees off in Dearborn, Michigan. ESPN and ABC will televise the live rounds from the Tournament Players Club of Michigan. Check local listings for times and detai...

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(half A) Cheeseburger In Paradise - 11-15-2004

We are sitting in a cafe called the Red Flannel Saloon in a town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan called Paradise. My son, Sam, knows exactly what he wants. “A cheeseburger,” he says. I glance at the menu. “The...

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Marriage - The Ultimate Road Trip - 7-15-2007

Winding around a bend in northern Maine in late September, we’re hit full in the face with a vista of yet another mountainside exploding with yet another dazzling splat of color.

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A Doggone Shame - 8-1-2007

SO, HERE WE ARE, just coming off of National Hot Dog Month, and yet we still have absolutely no clue what were doing. None. Used to be, you bought a package of wieners, you took them home, you boiled them. Boom Saturday lunch. Fancy was grilling th...

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Distance Makes the Heart Grow … - 9-1-2009

With the number of commuter marriages on the rise, more couples are discovering how far their love can stretch.

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A Queen Of The Queen Of The Heartland - 1-1-2007

Before Felicity Huffman was a star on screens big (this Springs Georgia Rule) and small (Desperate Housewives), she was a hardworking, couch-surfing, snow-shoveling Chicago actress. she's more than happy to take us back there.

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Tell Us - 5-1-2003

READERS CHOICE Because your the expert "My favorite golf course is the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. But if you take away the history surrounding that famous course, Michigan’s ARCADIA BLUFFS [800-494-8666] may ha...

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Fine Wine Online? - 11-1-2004

Quick does your state allow direct shipment of wine from out of state? don't feel bad if you're clueless; state laws on grapes-to-go are a complicated hodgepodge (see www.freethegrapes.org).As of now, 24 states either forbid or restrict direct-to-con...

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The Wizard Of Ahhhs - 11-1-2005

Robert Sabuda‚s‚ pop-up books are artistic and architectural marvels, fascinating young and old alike. How does he do it?

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Morel of the Story - 9-15-2009

You could call morels -- common but hard-to-find mushrooms prized by chefs for their meaty flavor -- the fundamental fungi. But we actually think the hunt for these scrumptious ’shrooms would make a great reality show. Send contestants armed with garbage bags out into a forest after a batch of spring thunderstorms followed by a string of sunny days (the ideal conditions for the growth of mold). Have them return to the kitchen with their finds to cook up a masterful dish centered around the little hunted morels. Then, contestants serve guests while regaling them with tall tales of snakebites and coyote encounters yet refuse to divulge to them the secret locations where these little delicacies (which can set you back more than $40 a pound at a farmers market) were found. Of course, they’ll know once the show airs, but that’s the price of fame.

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Menu - 10-1-2001

To change how your company works, change how your people think.

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Surf - 1-1-2004

WWW.ZINGERMANS.COM It’s been referred to as the “coolest small company in America,” and now this popular brick-and-mortar deli (in Ann Arbor, Michigan) has gone virtual, offering food lovers a huge, worldwide we...

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Movies - 1-1-2004

THE BIG BOUNCE The 1969 film The Big Bounce, based on an Elmore Leonard novel, was a stinker starring Ryan O’Neal. This remake tries to improve that predictable con-man caper by casting the funnier Owen Wilson in the lead, and the alw...

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Mensa Quiz-4/15/2005 - 4-15-2005

Mensa Quiz for American Way Magazine 04-15-2005

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Mensa Quiz-2/15/2006 - 2-15-2006

Mensa Quiz for American Way Magazine 02-15-2006

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