Eileen, Beyonce, and Oprah

by | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog

Q. What do Eileen, Beyonce, and Oprah have in common? A. Not much! But I am very happy to say that reviews of Breaking and Entering appeared in the January 23, 2012, issue of People Magazine (along with news of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby), and the February 2012...

by | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog

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Marian Learns to Make Fire

by | Apr 19, 2010 | Blog

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

by | Apr 19, 2010 | Blog

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

by | Jan 12, 2010 | Blog

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...