- - Diane Wakoski preparing to read poetry at The Scarab Club In Michigan in June we see lots of June beetles banging against lighte...

- - I haven't attended church since sometime in the 1990s. Sometimes I miss the singing. I grew up singing alto in the choir, as my m...

- - Original Motown Records site on West Grand Ave in Detroit In the junior department at Sears, buying school clothes for my sophomore yea...

- - Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry" murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts It was like a new bird was born out of the bu...

- -   We finally watched Gran Torino last night, Clint Eastwood's 2008 film, set in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit where Walt (Eas...