My favorite restaurant in Grand Rapids is Marie Catrib’s, named after the fabulous woman who moved from Lebanon to Michigan over forty years ago and, in 2004, opened her restaurant in the then-sketchy, now-vibrant East Hills neighborhood. The restaurant is bright and cheery and perfect, and Marie Catrib herself was usually there, quick to offer […]
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The holidays are indeed upon us, and they’ve swept me up entirely. I’ve been immersed in the pre-holiday sprint at work, tourist-centric people watching at the Ferry Building as I finish up my Christmas shopping, cocktail parties, cookie decorating, the inevitably chaotic process of packing for holiday trips, present-wrapping to the tune of old Christmas […]
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The other day, I missed my bus stop on the way to work. I realized at just the last second at the stop after mine, so I ended up two stops down the line from where I needed to be. I had been reading. Clearly I’m as distracted by books now as I was as a […]
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