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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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