by GraceW | Jun 13, 2020 | Adult, Adult Finalists, Finalists, Grand Traverse, Winners
by Robert Brintnall, 06/13/2020, Buckley, MI Adult Category New Tricks for Old Dogs At a staff meeting earlier this year the principal demonstrated a teaching tool where kids held up a special card to represent their answer to a question. Then the teacher could...
by admin | Jun 5, 2020 | Adult, Adult Finalists, Finalists, Grand Traverse
by Kathleen Stocking, 06/05/2020, Traverse City, MI Adult Category The Pandemic, or How People Are Like Butterflies When did I become more interested in reading about the plague – in little bits and pieces, skim-reading, not really reading – than daily dealings...
by GraceW | May 11, 2020 | Adult, Adult Finalists, Finalists, Grand Traverse
by Derek Meyer, 05/10/2020, Traverse City, MI Adult Category Attention to the bright, the ambitious, the movers and shakers of the American future. I’m watching as I hope you do the same, knowing that at no point in the near future may these critical points...
by GraceW | May 9, 2020 | Adult, Adult Finalists, Antrim, Finalists
by Lorna Corso, 05/09/2020, Kewadin, MI Adult Category My Hair is Flat My hair is flat. Transitioning to gray has been forced upon me. I haven’t had a haircut in eight months and my go-to style is a pony tail or a bun. There are remnants of my last manicure and...
by GraceW | May 9, 2020 | Adult, Adult Finalists, Finalists, Grand Traverse, Winners
by Ashley Bursian, May 9th, 2020, traverse city, Mi Adult Category Luckily for me, I have some experience with the hardships of quarantine. There was once a point in my life, while homeless, that myself and two sons lived year round in a 1964 hi-lo camper, for 2...
by GraceW | May 7, 2020 | Adult, Adult Finalists, Finalists, Leelanau
by P. J. Grath, 5/7/2020, Northport, MI Adult Category The only home we own is an old farmhouse in Leelanau County, Michigan. My husband and I are 83 and 72 and still self-employed in side-by-side seasonal businesses in Northport, my bookstore and his...
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