It’s a common theory that a woman’s voice matures around 30 years of age.  That puts mine well past its expiration date, and I live in fear of becoming the lady who used to sit behind me in church and sing “Just As I Am” with so much warbling vigor that her vibrato covered an […]

[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) There’s something romantic about the notion of time capsules.  They provide a sort of poor man’s time travel—a leap back into an age and context when life was much different.  I wonder what I […]

In memory of Marilyn June Scribner June 9, 1930 – December 24, 2021 I reluctantly headed out to a women’s gathering at Blanchard Alliance Church shortly after I moved back to the States eleven years ago. I’m a introvert, so the thought of stepping into a circle of well-established social connections was daunting. But I […]

[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.] Back in the day when I was a spry and lively college coed, I never used the Prairie Path.  I was afraid that I was too fat, too out of shape and too un-athletic […]

This is an entry I don’t know how to write…  I’m waiting for a friend to die.  A friend I haven’t spoken with in years.  A friend who was once the center of my universe.  A friend who knew me without explanation.  A friend who inspired me.  A friend who healed me and harmed me. […]

Ask any MK where home is and you’ll see an impressive display of pre-syncopal symptoms: the eyes roll back, sweat beads form, and sometimes an involuntary twitch appears.  For most of my life, I’ve answered the question with a vague “it’s complicated” met by raised eyebrows and loss of interest.  More recently, I’ve perfected a […]

[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.] How ’bout a little quiz?  Which of these are NOT true statements? There are 2,800 Tim Hortons donut shops in Canada Canada is basketball’s birthplace Uncle Tom’s Cabin (of the famed slave novel) was […]

[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.] Warning:  This one is…weird.  I may be suffering from acute humidity-induced something-or-other… ******* It’s a day that comes around every two years.  It’s pretty easy to predict its arrival, really.  The birds stop singing.  […]

[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.] Gracie-Pooh Studebaker is my new best friend.  She’s dependable, knowledgeable, longsuffering and objective to a fault.  That’s her good side—kind of like saying that Rosie O’Donnell is funny and engaging, while omitting “belligerent,” “cantankerous,” […]

[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.] I’ve just come home from an evening walk on the beach.  I’m not usually a beach-person.  I like to say it’s “too sunny, too sandy and too bathing-suity” for me.  But I was lured […]