Rebecca Powers

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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