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  • 2010 Reflections: Routine Disrupted

    I am a creature of habit. I enjoy having a certain routine to my life and when that routine becomes disrupted, even for the most innocent reasons, I am unsettled for days afterward.

  • 2010 Reflections: Deep Reflections Following a Spider Squashing

    This year, my sister Tracy and I lived in a crappy cottage during the tourist season.

  • 2010 Reflections: On Science – 2010

    Genetic testing is coming of age and is especially valuable to the medical profession in targeting immunotherapies for specific diseases. Individuals can even send in cheek swabs and spend up to $500 to have their DNA checked for genes that might be associated with certain diseases.

  • 2010 Reflections: Back to My Roots

    This summer and fall – the 19th my husband and I have spent in Door County – was a very special time.

  • 2010 Reflections: Similarities to Home, or Home Enough

    Midtown Manhattan. It’s everything that I’ve known, and everything hated about The City.

  • 2010 Reflections: An American Table

    It struck me as I was sitting at the old, heavy metal kitchen table that was tucked against the wallpaper of Norman and Lenore Carroll’s modest Sister Bay home.

  • 2010 Reflections: My Year of Paint

    This year, on purpose, I painted ceilings, floors, walls, windows, doors, trim, pipes, handles and hinges. Not on purpose, I painted my clothes, my hair, my face, my laptop, several coffee mugs and, on two calamitous occasions, my cat.

  • 2010 Reflections: Transformation Amidst a Lack of Harmony

    As I reflect on the past year, many things emerge from the depths of my heart, mind and spirit – and in all likelihood – in that order. One of the most compelling realizations that emerge is that I’m undergoing a transformation.

  • 2010 Reflections: Of Cabbages and Kings

    The summer of 2010 yielded one of the finest gardens I have tended in years. After threading soaker hose through my seedlings and mulching with newspaper and straw, preparing for the return of the droughts of past summers, I was pleased to learn my efforts were unnecessary: every week rain fell! My tomatoes were determined to have a jungle of their own; my cucumbers attempted to travel the world; and my corn reached for the sky, like petty criminals happy in their apprehension.

  • 2010 Reflections: Remembering – July 9, 2010

    2010 was a year of change for me personally, as well as for the businesses of which I am part owner. We purchased a new building and moved the offices and my residence.

  • 2010 Reflections: A Full Year in the County

    2010 was the first year I’ve spent in Door County since high school, when I would come home from boarding school and work the summers. It’s the first full year since middle school.

  • 2010 Reflections: Rooting For Laundry

    I’m a sports junkie. I played four sports in high school, three in college. I wake up every morning to ESPN (or the Golf Channel when in season). I’m a washed up athlete, and a forever fan of most notably college hoops, professional football and golf. So when asked to reflect on the year, my jock brain instinctively switched to sports.

  • 2010 Reflections: Living My Dream in Door County

    I never wanted to be rich and famous or do something just because I had no other choice. I’ve always hoped to be able to do what I love and for years struggled to find something that would fulfill the writer in me.

  • 2010 Reflections: Thank You, Door County

    Of all the events that have made 2010 a year to remember, it is one that happens every year, high school graduation, that looms in my mind. The reason: this year’s graduation was mine.

  • 2010 Reflections: Coffee Cravings and Reaching Resolutions

    I’ve never been one to stick with a New Year’s resolution. Whether it’s a lack of discipline or the inability to follow through, I’ve been like so many Americans whose good intentions peter out a few weeks into January.

  • By the Numbers

    75 Percent of nonprofit executive directors who say they don’t plan on being in their jobs five year from now 489 Number of U.S. fatalities in Afghanistan in 2010 99,052 Minimum estimate of the documented civilian deaths from violence in Iraq since the U.S. invasion March 20, 2003 574,227,120 Number of Facebook users worldwide 25 […]

  • Notes from the Grove

    Welcome to the Notes from the Grove, providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tid bits of information about goings on in town government.

  • How A Small Town Shovels Out

    Two days later, the hangover from our first winter storm is still being felt, with school canceled at Gibraltar, Sevastopol, and Southern Door, and delayed in Sturgeon Bay. When the blizzard arrived Saturday

  • An Outlook

    With Christmas almost upon us, it must be time for some holiday season trivia. This time let’s consider that mysterious figure Wenceslas. Aside from some of the principal participants in the nativity, no individual associated with the holiday season had as interesting a story as King Wenceslas.

  • Why Is It…?

    Why is it that breast cancer rates continue to rise despite all of the campaigns to raise funds and public awareness?