• 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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  • Retreating

    Where do you retreat from this complex world? How do you “draw back” (the Latin root meaning of the word) to find quiet, distance, perspective and connect with your inner world? It was a solo retreat in the pandemic winter of 2020-21 that launched my personal relationship with the Great…

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