Happy New Year! But more importantly, peace. The Holidays have passed, the streets have quieted, and the credit cards are back in the wallet. There’s always a distinct end to the rampant energy that befalls the Holidays in Downtown Petoskey. …
Whenever writer’s block materializes, I gather a small notebook from my writing studio and head outside onto the streets of Downtown Petoskey. It is here I find a jewel. With its many facets and sparkles, Downtown Petoskey has become a …
Sitting with Andrew Heppner, owner of “Populace” at 207 Howard Street, I’m struck by his comfort; his fit into Downtown Petoskey. “We wanted to be Up North,” he notes, “so, when Dripworks wanted to sell, we preserved the infrastructure upon …
October 30, 2019 Astonished and mesmerized, I’ve watched the streets of Downtown Petoskey fill with throngs of people on the most random of days. Sure, on weekends and in the height of summer, we expect visitors and tourists from all …
September 18, 2019 As we conspire with the Universe conveying wants and needs, occasionally we pause to step back and take note of what we have and what we are experiencing at the moment, realizing the world is a …
August 7, 2019 As the air cools through the evening and into night and the fog covers warming Lake Michigan, we turn our attention to the slowdown and a transition to fall. Families are the first to travel south for …
July 10, 2019 So, if you arrived in early spring, you probably found winter and if you arrived in early summer you found early spring and if you arrive now, we’ve gone directly to late summer. Blooms and blossoms are …
June 5, 2019 As the curtain of fog rises over the bay, we find our Downtown ready for business and the stage set for all to disengage from a long winter and cold spring. The annual Open House kicks …
May 8, 2019 There’s a soft rain today quenching the thirst of the yellow daffodils, pink and red tulips, purple pansies, and the fresh spring grass. Renewal is all around us, here, in Petoskey, with the warmth and breadth of …
April 17, 2019 Ralph Waldo Emerson once contemplated: If I go into the forest, I find all new and undescribed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Awaiting the new and undescribed, Spring is yawning to resume the warmth we love and the leftover …
March 13, 2019 The eight-foot snow piles in my backyard next to the driveway are real. The carved-out hamster-runs around my house are necessary. The walk downtown in the sunshine on a subzero, blustery winter day? Beautiful. We had a …
February 13, 2019 From ice into snow through thaw and onto a flash frozen tundra, Downtown Petoskey remains open for business. The winds billowing off Lake Michigan came twisting over and around streets as the raucous gales brought winter …
