Marian Learns to Make Fire

Marian accompanied me to the militia’s Tax Blast two Saturdays ago. A militia guy was teaching everyone to make fires using two sticks. That was pretty hard, but Marian managed to get some smoke signals going using a flint and a piece of steel. Next, he’s...

The Militia and Me

A few weeks ago, after nine members of the Hutaree militia were arrested in and around Ann Arbor, an editor at The Times asked me to follow up my series on the election by writing an op-ed piece about militia activities in Michigan. He wanted to know if the average...

Walk Right In

This is the only known photo of my family’s hotel, other than the photo of the dining room I uploaded to this blog last year. Amazing that in all the years we owned Pollack’s, no one thought to take a picture. Then again, everyone was too busy working...