James McWilliams

September 25, 2011

As both my regular readers know, I periodically do a blog to report feedback that does not show up in the “comment” box. I have gotten a few robot entries that it was very tempting to approve. Most of the time I just get stuff like the following: “Hello there, I found your [...]

Bernard Rollin

September 18, 2011

A couple of years ago I was enjoying some bean tacos at the East Lansing Chipotle TM down on Grand River when I looked at my iced tea and saw a picture of my old friend Bernie Rollin staring back at me. Chipotle was running a series of paper cups with short bios [...]

Joan Dye Gussow

September 11, 2011

This week it could be “Peach Patch” in deference to another luscious fruit that came too late in Michigan this year, then disappeared much too quickly. But if you click back to last week’s blog, you’ll see we’re doing mini-icons this month, and you’ll also learn why there’s no anniversary theme to this [...]

Mark Bittman

September 4, 2011

Newspapers, magazines and television are ramping up for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It’s shaping up to be a major community-building moment for Americans. I take this seriously, but I haven’t been able to come up with any plausible angle that ties in with the Thornapple Blog. I may have shot [...]