Author name: Karyl F. Stein

Across from our house there’s a drainage basin that ends up feeding the Rouge River. There’s also a bit of wooded area around that. Over the past week there has been a lot of noise from the other side of the basin and sadly a good portion of the trees have been cut down. The

For Father’s Day, the kids and I took a walk around Ann Arbor.  This was planned and even though it was raining hard when we started, we decided we’d do it no matter what the weather.  As it turned out, the rain stopped as we arrived even though we were ready to be drenched. We

Thanks to all who have given their lives while serving in the Unites States Armed Services. If you don’t know, William’s middle name is in honor of one such person. You see, William’s great grandfather on his mom’s paternal side was a Marine. During World War II, he was sent to fight in the Pacific

For his last birthday, I bought William a multi-purpose net. The main driver was that we had destroyed a soccer ball by kicking it against the concrete porch too much. Why were we kicking it at the porch? Well, at that point we used a couple of the porch columns as goal markers and between

Saturday was a day of cooking and driving.  First up at 9AM was Liam’s second practice with his baseball team.  We all manage to roll out of bed, get ready, and head out to drop him off.  Ann and I then head to the grocery store to pick up lunch and dinner supplies for today

For this year’s family vacation my parents took us to Niagara Falls and Toronto over Easter break.  The idea was to drive through Canada to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and spend a couple days there, head up to Toronto and spend a couple days there then head back home.  As in any family

Ann’s birthday is coming up and for the past few weeks we’ve been coming up with a plan for her party.  When I initially asked her what she wanted to do the first question out of her mouth was, “how many people can I invite?”  Huh?  I thought we’d figure out the “what” and the