A First Communion Story, Brimley, Michigan – 1954
Listening to Donald J. Trump address the AFPI
Former President Don Trump recently attended the America First Policy Institute’s “Agenda Summit” in Washington, D.C. part and spoke there. It was his first appearance in our nation’s capital since the uprising he instigated. I listened to him on one computer while playing solitaire on another. I wasn’t very interested…
Siblings and a City Dog in Brimley, MI
The Dog Days of August in the Upper Peninsula
He who has ears, let him hear
by Sharon M. Kennedy While watching the Select Committee question people who were directly involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection, that line from the Bible kept repeating in my mind. I thought about the individuals refusing to listen to the witnesses who are testifying under oath. If they have nothing…
Haying in Chippewa County, Michigan
Have we normalized the absurd? The real Donald J. Trump legacy
by Sharon Kennedy A couple of years ago, I was watching a television program and the guest was former secretary of state, the late Madeleine Albright. She said something about the absurd becoming accepted as “normal” in today’s politics. Anyone who survived the past six years with their intelligence intact…
Yoopers, I’m Taking It with Me
Busy as an Upper Peninsula Beaver
Beaver dam — Front door I’ll make this short. Everyone in the U.P. is complaining about the heat as they sit in their air-conditioned homes, ride in their air-conditioned cars, or dine at their favorite air-conditioned restaurants. Consider yourselves lucky. You could be as busy as the Yooper beavers who…
Sharon Kennedy: Let’s get off Mr. Trump’s back
Trump called on his supporters to send their contributions directly to his own committees in his first speech since leaving office. That call puts Trump at odds with the Republican Party’s existing political organizations, including the Republican National Committee and the party’s congressional campaign arms. Fake news, alternative facts, media…
Why is my body your choice?
With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling regarding Roe v. Wade, it caused me to remember the summer I heard about newborns referred to as “Thalidomide babies.” I was quite young, perhaps just in my teens, when newscasters told of infants born with life-threatening birth defects. I recall sitting at our…
Summer Softball Games on a Brimley Sideroad
Don’t Feel Guilty, Yoopers …Rats Also Prefer Donuts
Princess Cake Popular in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
A Prelude of What Was to Come in Washington
Making Tracks in Grand Marais, Michigan
No Microwave, No Keurig in My Sideroad Kitchen in Brimley Michigan
Rules, Wonderful Rules, in Michigan and Elsewhere
The Official Arrival of Summer in Chippewa County Michigan
Happy Father’s Day from Chippewa County
Remembering Flag Day in Brimley, Michigan
This article appeared once in the Brimley High School newspaper in the 1960s. Columnist Ann Landers has said it originally appeared in the Stars & Stripes newspaper, a US Armed Forces publication. Reprints have appeared in Dear Abby and many other syndicated columns. Stew Consentino, a Viet Nam vet, simply…
Yooper Kitchen Table Blues
by Sharon M. Kennedy If your kitchen table is like mine, it grows stuff. No matter how hard I try to keep it tidy, it refuses to cooperate. Unopened mail, yesterday’s newspaper, Avon brochures, magazines, bills, cookbooks, condiments, and miscellaneous items litter without the slightest apology. My morning table might…