Downtown Howell Ghost Tours: Can I get a house call?
I hope that while they’re around for the Downtown Howell Ghost Tours this month, investigators from the Southeast Michigan Paranormals consider a visit to my house. The Livingston County Convention and Visitors Bureau is sponsoring haunted tours of Howell’s historic downtown. For more information, click here. So I am crossing my fingers for a ghost [...]
My favorite year
I’ve learned a lot about running a website this past year, but I know you really don’t want to know about any of that behind-the-scenes, pay-no-attention-to-that-unemployed-person-behind-the-curtain kind of stuff. How about this? I’ve learned that every single day, someone, somewhere Googles one of these phrases: • Naked women driving. • Naked women in cars. • [...]
Where are all the editors when you need them?
Anyone who works with words for even a part of their living knows the horror of mistakes ending up in print. Sure, mistakes can be embarrassing. They can also be funny. And these days, mistakes get sent ’round the Internet, like this one shared by a former journalism professor of mine. You can read the [...]
Wild, Wonderful Night benefits wildlife programs
Wild Wonderful Night to benefit the wildlife programs at the Howell Nature Center is set for Thursday, Oct. 14. The annual fundraising gala begins at 6 p.m. at the Johnson Center at Cleary University, 3750 Cleary Drive in Howell. Tickets for the semi-formal event are $50 a person. Admission includes gourmet food, live jazz, a [...]
Carmen Harlan speaking at LACASA luncheon
Carmen Harlan is helping kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Livingston County at a luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 5. I’m excited because as well as being a big fan of hers, I’ve seen the popular WDIV-Detroit news anchor speak in Livingston County before. For all you newer Livingston County folks, once upon a time [...]
Autumn roars in like a lion
“This will be our last yard sale for awhile,” I told my husband and kid as they hauled stuff up from the basement and out of the garage for what has become an annual yard sale. This year, though, the sale happened much later than we had hoped. You see, every year for the past [...]
Howell student nearly done with shelter bed project
I wrote last month about Kyle Tokan’s wonderful Eagle Scout project for LACASA. Kyle, 17, built 21 wooden bed platforms for use in LACASA’s domestic violence shelter. He also raised money to purchase new mattresses. Right now, the Howell High School student is busy coordinating delivery schedules to make sure the platforms and mattresses get [...]
Ban this!
It’s hard to believe that “Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain’s masterpiece, was once banned for its crude language. The book, Twain’s follow-up to “Tom Sawyer” that one critic way back when called “cunningly subversive,” has its rightful place in American literature history. But it caused quite the stir when it was first published in 1884, and [...]
Award-winning journalist Maria Stuart lives with her husband, their 13-year-old son, and Ted, the hyper labradoodle who keeps her from sitting at the computer too long. You can check out her website by 
