Author: Sharon Kennedy
Picking Berries
Up-Hill
Cat Time I
Hot August sun burns into my pores. I’m in the sandbox with my twin dolls, Molly and Polly. I finally got them to sleep. It wasn’t easy, what with little black ants crawling over them. I swished them away without hurting them. Except the leader. I always kill the leader….
Poem in Prose
Farm Life A kid on the farm with only her imagination as playmate gets up early on summer mornings, pokes her head out bedroom windows, checks to see if she’s beaten the cows. Nope! Silver’s leading the pack, clang, clang goes her bell. Daisy lost her bell last week so…
Democracy at a Crossroads: A Conversation with the Honorable J. Michael Luttig
judge Luttig is an intelligent, articulate conservative who almost single-handedly stopped Mike Pence from doing the unthinkable on Jan 6. Do yourself a favor & listen to this interview:
The Power of Politics

By Sharon M. Kennedy When all the general election votes are counted, we could be heading for a non-democratic republic because some contenders believe democracy, as we have always defined it, is on the line. According to various candidates, our current system squanders money on people who won’t work and…
My Hat’s in the Ring
A Son’s Plea for Help
Schenck v. United States
An Emotionally Terrorized Nation
What’s in Store for 2025?
Teddy: A Typical U.P. Story
Sunday Visitors on the SideRoad
Getting Wood Ready for a U.P. Winter
When the Family Farm is Gone
A Tractor Ride in an Upper Peninsula Field
Summer’s Short Lease
Dressed for the Soo Locks Centennial 1955
Visitors to the Easter Upper Peninsula
The Hands of a Yooper
Summer on an Upper Peninsula SideRoad
The Bellamy Salute to Old Glory

by Sharon M. Kennedy In 1892, Francis Bellamy wrote the “Pledge of Allegiance.” It wasn’t long thereafter that Daniel Ford, owner of a children’s magazine called The Youth’s Companion, asked an editor to create a physical movement to accompany the pledge. I’ll skip all the ins-and-outs and simply say the…