Columbus Monthly Magazine
Travel writing 2021 to present
Columbus Monthly — Mackinac Island Lilac Festival July 2024
Columbus Monthly — Lost Appalachia July 2024
Columbus Montly — New York City July 2024
Columbus Monthly — St. Petersburg July 2024
Columbus Monthly — Mackinac Island June 2024
Columbus Monthly — Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park October 2023
Columbus Monthly — Fernald Preserve October 2023
Columbus Monthly — Michigan Travel Guide April 2022
Columbus Monthly — Downtown Detroit Getaway November 2021
Columbus Monthly — 12 Fabulous and Strange Places to Stay May 2021
Columbus Monthly — Grand Traverse Wine Country Vacation March 2021
Michigan Blue magazine
Travel writing 2020 to present
Waterfront Dining at Watermark , May 2024
Cool Cruises — Guide to Great Lakes Cruising June 2023
Luna Pier a Secret Spot, June 2023
Mackinac Island Tasting Room January 2023
Holland’s Tulip Time March 2022
Michigan’s Everglades: Shiawassee Wildlife Preserve September 2021
The Secret Life of Great Lakes Turtles April 2021
Lumberman’s Monument November 2020
Tobico Marsh July 2020
Hit the Trails – Michigan Blue Magazine (mibluemag.com)
Michigan’s XC Ski Headquarters has winter in its sights
Lake Huron Hideaway – Michigan Blue Magazine (mibluemag.com)
Sears Roebuck house at Hoeft State Park
Experience Michigan Magazine
Travel writing 2017 to present
- Appreciating Michigan’s First People / Fall 2018 (or here on the Web)
- Touring the Wheel Deal at Ford / Fall 2018 (or here on the Web)
- Check Out the DIA’s New Asian Art Wing – January 2, 2019 (or here on the Web)
- Seven Splashtastic Michigan Waterparks for Indoor Winter Fun / March 1, 2019 (or here on the Web)
- Chilling Out in Coldwater Country / Spring 2019 (or here on the Web)
- Take a Bite Out of Weird Michigan Museums / May 15, 2019 (or here on the Web)
- Circle of Life: Cherry Point Farms Woos Visitors with Labyrinth Fun / June 1, 2019 (or here on the Web)
- Visit These Six Fascinating Michigan African American History Sites / August 16, 2019 (or here on the Web)
- Old Bones, New Art, and a Little Sparkle at Michigan’s College Town Museums / September 15, 2019 (or here on the Web)
- See a Wildcat, Flying Tiger and a Blackbird at the Air Zoo / November 1, 2019 (or here on the Web)
- Making Michigan Maple Syrup Memories / March 1, 2020 (or here on the Web)
- Forts, Fresh Air and Family Fun / April 23, 2020 (or here on the Web)
Detroit Free Press
Travel reporting and travel columnist 2003-2016; feature writer 1987-2003. A sample of some of my favorites.
Breathtaking Yellowstone sparkles off season/ October 17 2016
What a trip: retiring Free Press travel writer tells all/ December 19, 2016
Five places you must see in your lifetime /December 22, 2016
Actual cost of transporting that $25 checked bag? About $2 / February 10, 2014
World tourism slogans range from lovely to laughable / November 26, 2016
Have baby, will travel: See the world with tot in tow /May 4, 2015
What 15,000 bells have taught her / January 4, 2015
Empire Builder train an icon of the West / 2012
Travel sites morph into giant blob with few deals / September 7, 2014
Ghostly guests: Some Michigan hotels haunted by spirits / October 31, 2010
Grace note at the airport / 2013 (listen to the song here)
Michigan passenger wins judgment – Page 1, Page 2 / July 15, 2007
Isle Royale – Page 1, Page 2 / July 26, 2009
Greenland: Jeweled hills of ice – Page 1, Page 2 / March 17, 2013
Lauren’s Choice (Pulitzer Prize Nominee; MPA 1st place feature writing) – Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 / September 13, 2000