
A small boat on a big lake and the search for a sense of place in Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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To my eyes, it was dark. After hours of making photographs deep in the Apostle Islands Ice Caves, night had fallen, deep shadows rising along with the cold. I was about to put the camera away and begin the long walk back to the car when som...
Sometimes, the truth just jumps right up and bites you. Just ask Ed Lane.
Ed Lane was the longest tenured keeper at a single light in the history of the Apostle Islands, serving at Michigan Island Light from 1902-1938. All those years on...
I wake with a start, sitting straight up in bed. In the dark, the claws of an awful dream are still screeching down the chalkboard of my sleep-rattled mind. For long minutes, I try to catch my breath, untangling myself from the strands of w...
It’s just water, just light. Yet some mornings it feels like something more, some synergy between these two most basic of the earth’s elements. It feels like there should be music, a symphonic score as the strings of morning light strum the...
In the dream, I died. It wasn’t like the fade-to-black at the end of an old movie, the sudden snapping off of a light switch, or even Annie Dillard’s “eyeless mask.” It was more like stepping into a painting at the museum - “The Starry Nigh...
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Once an award-winning travel writer, I now work to find depth and beauty in one chosen landscape: Lake Superior's Apostle Islands, aboard a small boat named the "Little Dipper." Join me on the journey.
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