Kathleen Stocking | Author

Looking for the Invisible Infinite in the Footprints of Wolves

Nov. 26, 2021

There’s a faint bluish cast to the day, a Delft blue, like the blue of the sky in Vermeer’s paintings, blue like moonlight, but in the day. 

In my mind I see footprints through the snow, out across the ice to the island.  I think they are wolf tracks, but how w… Read More >>

Traverse City’s Urban Design Lacks Both Vision and Common Sense

Aug. 21, 2021

Traverse City’s planners are so focused on creating wealth and tax revenue with “high density” that they aren’t thinking about what will happen in the future.

In 2017, Joe Minicozzi, a proponent of New Urbanism, came to Traverse City and, in the Warehouse Dis… Read More >>

The Museum inside Author Lynne Rae Perkins’ Mind

May 29, 2021

Lynne Rae Perkins, an award-winning Suttons Bay author and illustrator, has released a new book, “The Museum of Everything.” The book, a kind of map — or as publisher Harper Collins calls it, an invitation to go on “an imagination-fueled journey through the… Read More >>