Notebook | rebecca-powers

Summer Speak

We have a vocabulary for the easy season. With the solstice, we slip into summer speak, like saying, “yes, please,” to the offer of a col...

Mama Memories

The women who are most paramount in our lives are often also the least knowable, which makes them rich subject matter for a book. In the ...

Belongings

Photo montage: Jo Powers They say his mother kept the gun safe in his bedroom. Socially isolated, video-game obsessed, and a child of div...

Book Review: Words from the Woods

Years ago, my childhood friend Susan, a blond, broad cheekboned Finnish girl (like many in her native Copper Country), told me about thei...

Detroit Hardware Company

The screws are stored in what looks like a wooden card catalogue. The floors are wood, too, as is the wide staircase leading to the secon...

Looking Up

Photo: Spencer Olinek Doris peered up at the three-story high ceiling and zigzagging staircase angling toward the rooftop, a timid smile ...

Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor

Finally got a chance to stop in at Literati Bookstore on Washington in downtown Ann Arbor. On Saturday, we stepped away from the maize-an...

Outwardly Mobile

Subdivision Painting: Jo Powers We know them by the dogs they walk, the flowers they fancy, the schedules they keep, the newspapers they ...

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