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The Grand Hotel on Mackinac: A ‘Designer Hotel’ Like No Other
Emerald green sofas. Fuschia velvet armchairs. Crimson and lime green floral rugs next to bold black and white checkerboard tiles. Stepping into the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island is like walking into a box of crayons that exploded. But it’s not just the vibrant...
You Had Me at “Namaste”, Niagara!
I was a 58 year-old virgin. Yoga virgin, that is. Don’t get me wrong: I bought into the whole Lulu Lemon craze just like everyone else did a decade or so ago. After all, no one makes ‘Fantastic-Ass-Pants’ – as I call them – quite like Lulu. But as for the actual...
Travelling Back in Time on Michigan’s Mackinac Island
I've always considered myself a hopeless romantic, and one of my favourite movies was a 1980 film called Somewhere in Time, starring a young Christopher Reeve (before his crippling accident) and the always-beautiful Jane Seymour. The plot revolves around two...
How Sugar Saved Surfer Ryan Rustan’s Life
At first glance, he’s the stereotypical surfer dude: sun-bleached hair, smile lines from squinting at the California sun, and tattoos visible everywhere his wet suit stops. But Ryan Rustan’s story is anything but that of a shiny, carefree California boy. I met...
