They’ve come from India, Peru, the Philippines, Turkey, South Korea, Guinea, Israel, Romania, China, Japan, and undoubtedly a few others that I can’t remember offhand. They’re musicians, physicians, homemakers, auto workers, graduate students and retirees. They’re the people I’ve worked with in Washtenaw Literacy’s English as a Second Language drop-in ...
Anyone old enough to remember the ’70s in Ann Arbor will also remember, no doubt with a grimace, what an effort it took to be a recycler here in those days. You not only had to separate paper from other materials, but cans had to be flattened, bottles had to ...
I’ll know it’s spring when I smell that smell. The day will come when I walk out the door and catch a whiff of something that isn’t vehicle exhaust or cooking grease or dryer fumes, which are pretty much my nose’s outdoor diet from November to March. Jeff Mortimer is ...
What is it about humans that makes us think things will always be the way they are now? We can talk all we want about change to believe in, but, at some core level, we don’t believe ourselves when we do. I don’t mean social justice or the economy, but ...
Katie and Jeremy Larrison had a birthday party several Saturdays ago for their younger daughter, Mira, who turned a year old. That sounds routine enough, but very little about Mira’s life so far has been routine.
Dragnet, a hugely popular “true crime” TV show in the ’50s and ’60s that was the prototype for today’s hugely popular “true crime” TV shows, always began with the announcement that “the story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” ...
It was the afternoon before Thanksgiving. I was in no particular hurry, but that didn’t stop my justice molecules from starting to stir at the sight of the elderly and bewildered-looking man in front me in the checkout line at Kroger. The quick exit I had envisioned after cleverly spotting ...
One night in 1940, a resident of Pauline Boulevard called the Ann Arbor cops because some owls hooting in a tree outside his bedroom window were keeping him awake. An officer named Hank Murray was dispatched to the scene. He found the owls, and shot five of them. Case closed. ...
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