• Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

    In 2011, Good Morning America named Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan the Most Beautiful Place in America. It beat out Aspen, CO, Cape Cod, MA and Lanikai Beach, HI among others, taking many people by surprise. But it shouldn’t have! We spent an idyllic four days in the…

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  • The Great Lakes as The Breakfast Club

    My husband and I moved to Cleveland in 2014. That fall we had a BBQ with some new Cleveland friends, one of whom was stationed here with the U.S. Coast Guard. Partway through the evening, someone posed a question: What if the Great Lakes were the characters of the classic…

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  • Great Lakes 101

    Over the past two years of my soft fascination with the Great Lakes, there are many facts and statistics I have either learned or revisited. But one fact stands out: The Great Lakes and their connecting waterways make up the largest surface freshwater system on earth. Why this matters: The…

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