Visit This Historic Haven!
Decades of personal dining, lodging, snowmobiling, Christmas shopping, hot cocoa to hot buttered rum tasting. The Clifford Lake Inn and formerly, Hotel, has that in spades for me. My Danish Grandmother harkened from them their hills. In fact, while en route we happened by a park north of Greenville...
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The Butler did it!
Saugatuck, Michigan should be on the list to be named in the top ten wonders of the world. I really don’t have a dog in the fight. Even so, each and every time I visit, my breath slows, as does the velocity of my steps, because she is just that...
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The Forager: ‘A Real Find!’
Oddly enough, I was in the middle of putting at Pebble Beach when the call of the wild gave way, leading me to a New York state of mind. My cousin, who hails from Buffalo, was singing the praises of a certain restaurant where “Captain Picky Eater” claims he...
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A Taste of Italy
Unfortunately, I don’t speak Italian, yet. I do, however, speak Vitale’s! It all began rather innocently when I was invited to a grand opening ceremony complete with ribbon cutting at the original Vitale’s in Michigan on Leonard Street decades ago. I scored an invite as I was smitten with...
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Lovely Leigh’s
It’s not that far afield to accuse me of being a clothes horse. I’ve even been caught wearing skirts to the stable, and maybe that’s why I hot foot it over to Leigh’s every chance I get—to get a feel for what is new and real. And real fun. An...
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