I saw my cousins over the weekend we stood around and sat around and had a fire a neighbor had cut a piece of wood into what he called a Swedish Can…

the first full beer I ever drank was a Mike’s Hard Lemonade I took it from the fridge and drank it in the garage which was adjacent to the house

One winter day my friends and I were getting together to play bask… I think I picked up Charlie or he… already hanging out with me we got in my truck and were drivin…

when I was around ten years old we went camping up at Barnes Park by Torch Lake we’d go to the beach and ride Sea-… on one particular ride

in high school Charlie and I used to push out our fellow studen… who were stuck in snowbanks we’d come into class half-frozen and late

drinking aromatic coffee and writi… in the tired morning whatever happened to those ingenious couch cartoons? we used to cruise our bikes

when my Dad lived in Benzie the lake would freeze over across… so my Dad, I, and my brother would go out and walk on it we would walk the shoreline

this one time I was riding with C… in the old Cutlass she opened it up on a back road we were going about 110 I remember because she had me

in high school I hurt my knee at a football practice I slammed it off the ground I think it was a Bursa sac it would flare up when I put press…

I washed boats the Summer after I graduated college one day we were over in Harbor Sp… getting ready to do a job and as I was stepping on to this

right around a month ago I was in Northern Michigan and th… at a golf outing the golf was fine but just hanging… the guys is what it’s all about

I like seeing what you’re doing now you’re writing poem books you’re teaching

when Dee was still alive and her cancer was in remission we went out for dinner one night a… downtown Cadillac during the winte… after we pulled up to the restaura…

I remember a winter when we were l… and we played hockey in the drivew… it was me and my brother, Des vs.… we were using hockey sticks and a… it was a brilliant winter and a fu…