by GraceW | Jul 26, 2020 | Grand Traverse, High School, High School 9-12, Winners
by Athena Gillespie, 06/30/2020, Traverse City, MI High School 9-12 Category As I lay in bed, the natural light from my window slowly dwindling, I hear them. A cacophony of drums, maracas, pots, pans, and more. I glance at the clock. 8:00 PM on the dot. I wasn’t...
by GraceW | Jul 1, 2020 | Adult, Grand Traverse
by Barb Gordon-Kessel, 06/30/2020, Traverse City, MI Adult Category I wake up to week four of Michigan’s coronavirus shutdown with a startling revelation, I want to go to Disney World. Inexplicably, I crave crying babies, their crabby parents, annoyingly perky...
by GraceW | Jun 30, 2020 | Adult, Grand Traverse
by Susan Odgers, 06/30/2020, Traverse City, MI Adult Category Susan Odgers Adult “Daybreak” This morning, my day begins as it always has. From a quilt covered queen size brass bed, I softly open my blue eyes. To my right side, I look upward at the wall with the...
by GraceW | Jun 30, 2020 | Grand Traverse, Middle School, Middle School 6-8
by Anika Hintz, 06/29/2020, Interlochen, MI Middle School 6-8 Category Starting on March 13,2020 I did not go anywhere in the car for over two months. Before Covid, my activities kept me busy going back and forth from school to my dance studio, choir, and the...
by GraceW | Jun 29, 2020 | Adult, Finalists, Grand Traverse
by Betsy Emdin, 06/29/2020, Traverse City, MI Adult Category Quarantine ended for me on June 8, when I drove from Traverse City to Grand Rapids to help out with my granddaughters aged 20 months and 3 ¾. My daughter’s mother-in-law is terminally ill, and her husband...
by GraceW | Jun 29, 2020 | Adult, Grand Traverse
by MICHAEL SIMS, 06/29/2020, Traverse, MI Adult Category We all have family that we call our own, it needn’t even matter whether they’re of blood or not. Whether one was raised through biological blood, adapted, or sees another person/group as a surrogate family,...
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