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Bonnie 2015

All we have left are her stories-Bonnie Bucqueroux leaves a legacy of compassion, creativity and passion

By Bill Castanier on October 30, 2015

Bonnnie Bucqueroux may be gone but her stories will always be with us

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Life & Other Problems: Elementary Education

Life & Other Problems: Elementary Education

By Clarice Thompson on May 10, 2015

Elementary school to me meant many things: being a frog in the first grade play, learning to harmonize when the twice-a week music teacher came to our class, standing on our desks being “trees” while two classmates galloped around, on their way “Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house.” Before entering kindergarten, […]

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Day 30: Poem-a-Day: Schools Out by Alice Cooper

Day 30: Poem-a-Day: Schools Out by Alice Cooper

By Bill Castanier on April 30, 2015

Rock poetry rules

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Day 29: Poem-a-Day: Prelude by Stephanie Glazier

Day 29: Poem-a-Day: Prelude by Stephanie Glazier

By Bill Castanier on April 29, 2015

Nature at its best

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Day 28: Poem-a-Day: Our Day Pistoia by Jack A. Drew

Day 28: Poem-a-Day: Our Day Pistoia by Jack A. Drew

By Bill Castanier on April 29, 2015

A poem by a World War II veteran describes the tedium of behind the lines

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Day 27: Poem-a-Day: The Moveen Notebook by Thomas Lynch

Day 27: Poem-a-Day: The Moveen Notebook by Thomas Lynch

By Bill Castanier on April 27, 2015

Death is a decidedly different place

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Day 25 and 26: Poem-a-Day: Night Syrup and Dibiki-Ziigwaagaame by Margaret Noodin

Day 25 and 26: Poem-a-Day: Night Syrup and Dibiki-Ziigwaagaame by Margaret Noodin

By Bill Castanier on April 26, 2015

Poetry Anishinaabemowin and English

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Day 24: Poem-a-Day: Hick Orpheus with Harmonica and Train by Dennis Hinrichsen

Day 24: Poem-a-Day: Hick Orpheus with Harmonica and Train by Dennis Hinrichsen

By Bill Castanier on April 24, 2015

Old Susanna

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Day 23: Poem-a-Day: Death Poem by John Wilkes Booth and David Herold

Day 23: Poem-a-Day: Death Poem by John Wilkes Booth and David Herold

By Bill Castanier on April 23, 2015

John Wilkes Booth put his hand to poetry before his death

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Day22: Poem-a-Day: Wisconsin,1929 by Cindy Hunter Morgan

Day22: Poem-a-Day: Wisconsin,1929 by Cindy Hunter Morgan

By Bill Castanier on April 22, 2015

WISCONSIN, 1929 Lake Michigan What he knew of death was a brood mare in a barn stall heaving quietly in the dark – contraction and silence. When the canvas on the lifeboats hummed in the wind and lanterns slammed against bulkheads and fire-grate doors swung on their hinges, he heard music and felt, only, the […]

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Day 21: Poem-a-Day: folktale by Janet Homer

Day 21: Poem-a-Day: folktale by Janet Homer

By Bill Castanier on April 21, 2015

A watch is more than a timepiece

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Day 20: Poem-a-Day: No More Winter by Len Peterson

Day 20: Poem-a-Day: No More Winter by Len Peterson

By Bill Castanier on April 20, 2015

Winter and spring seemed to be mixed up

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Activism

  • What it is really like out there
  • VIDEOS: She Laughs comedy fund-raiser celebrates 10th anniversary
  • MI NORML on the legislature’s failure to act
  • Lame duck bills bring protesters to the Capitol
  • VIDEO: Race matters in mid-Michigan
  • A victim speaks out on campus rape
  • An Open Letter of Love to Black Students
  • 11 reasons community policing died

Life & other problems

  • Life & Other Problems: Birthday
  • Life & Other Problems: Eight Times Ten
  • Life & Other Problems: Yesterday’s Kitchen 1934 – 1949
  • Life & Other Problems: Seasons
  • Life & Other Problems: Healing
  • Life & Other Problems: Amusement
  • Life & Other Problems: Snow Wars
  • Life & Other Problems: Christmas Past

My Michigan

  • Lansing Historical Society hosts author of book on state’s historical depots
  • MY MICHIGAN: Jimmy Hoffa was born 101 years ago today
  • My Michigan: When the snow reached the electrical wires
  • MY MICHIGAN: Time-lapse video of snowblowing the driveway
  • MY MICHIGAN: Satellite view of lake effect snow
  • MY MICHIGAN: Video of the blizzard of 1978
  • MY MICHIGAN: DIA ad from 1976 shows happier times
  • MY MICHIGAN: Brian d’Arcy James sings “Michigan Christmas”

News

  • Day 19: Poem-a-Day: Teakettle by Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • Day 18: Poem-a-Day: I Want To Be Once by M.L. Liebler
  • Day 17: Poem-a-Day: Amazing Mavis by Barbara Drake
  • Day 16: Poem-a-Day: The Lieutenant’s Story
  • Day 15: Poem-a-Day: Upper Peninsula Ephemera by Angela Wittrock
  • Day 14: Poem-a-Day: Insomnia by Jennifer Otto
  • Day 13: Poem-a-Day: The Brook Trout Diaries by Mark James Andrews
  • Day 12: Poem-a-Day:The Appointment by John Peter Beck

Stone Soup

  • Stone Soup: It’s raining bodies!
  • Stone Soup: Musical Chairs
  • Stone Soup: Listening – the best gift of all.
  • Stone Soup: It’s the microbes ya filthy animal!
  • Stone Soup: It’s All Downhill
  • Stone Soup: Saying farewell to a house
  • Stone Soup – What Mistakes Can Teach Us
  • Stone Soup: Goodbye ceremonies