Made in Michigan:Distinctive Nurseries

In 2002, Michelle Torres had a baby with systemic mastocytois, which is a rare blood disease. Suddenly, she found the need to be a stay-at-home-mom to care for her daughter. She wanted to start a business that she could run from her home. She found a lack of designer nursery bedding available through one source, …

Local author’s book makes great graduation gift

As students move on to college, they sometimes prepare for living on their own for the first time with lots of new supplies and decoration for their dorm room. They pick up new textbooks, notebooks and pens. And parents hope they have prepared their children to take on the world. Local author Vesna M. Bailey …

Free Admission to ALL Metroparks

The  Metroparks are providing free park entry and boat launch use, special programs, and park cleanups on Saturday, April 16, as the 13 Huron-Clinton Metroparks celebrate “Earth Appreciation Day.” For more information about the activities that will be going on at each Metropark, go (here).

6 Easter Egg Hunts in Huron-Clinton Metroparks

“Toddlers’ Egg Hunt” Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10 at noon and 3 pm, Historic Center of Wolcott Mill Metropark in Ray Township. “Farm Egg Scramble,” Sunday, April 17, noon to 3 pm, Wolcott Mill Metropark Farm Center in Ray Township. “Easter Egg Hunt,” Sunday, April 17 at noon, Hudson Mills Metropark near Dexter/Ann …

It’s a Small World at Nordstrom

We recently took a family vacation at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. One ride that has been around since I was a child and that I remember clearly is It’s a Small World. It’s one of the few rides that has seemed to never change and has remained timeless. After 45 years Disney’s It’s a …

The Future Depends on the Changes We Make NOW

I listen to my grandmother talk about when she was a little girl, movies were 5 cents.  I go back to my home town in Dublin, OH and see the transformation that has taken place since I last visited 14 years ago. Those memories are things that happened in the past that have paved the …