What Makes You So Special

The Kids Who Built a Colony

September 2008. A 158-year-old bank filed for bankruptcy at 2am. I'm in a remote cabin with bad internet, two fighting kids, and clients asking if their money is safe. Outside, it's starting to rain.

Poverty Island - What the Lake Keeps

A remote island in Lake Michigan. Big water, old ruins, and a small feeling that not everything is meant to come home with you.

What Makes You So Special

At thirteen, I am handed the keys to a truck I have never driven and told to back it up. Some questions don't get answered until you're standing at someone else's table, looking at the things they carried.

The Not So Newlywed Game

She asked for somewhere warm with a swim-up bar. He delivered. Art Van Furniture was not part of the plan.

Thunder Bay Island

Thunder Bay Island hasn't had a keeper in decades. The dock and boathouse succumbed to the seas, the forest advanced. The island changed hands. But something is still running anyway.