


The Happy People are Happy People
We’re fascinated by life on the fringe. And we tend to think our fascination is innocent, sometimes even going so far to say, “Man, that would be the life. Living off the land. Eating what you kill. Building fires. Drinking fresh goat’s milk.” But there’s the safety of our urban habitat, which — in our […]

The Detroit of the Mind
—I grew up in Illinois and Wisconsin, on just the other side of the lake from Michigan, or The Glove State. Detroit hung out there like some kind of borderland. Even from a young age, people would say, “Oh, Detroit…” the same way they might start to speak of an extended family member who had […]