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2025-08-03

Below is an intellectual and 🍹experiential🍹 record of my 2-week summer vacation in Big Rapids, Michigan. (Mostly I read, drank margaritas, and hung out by and in the Muskegon River.)

Silver Lake State Park, Mears, MI
"Translation's Drift" by Kwame Anthony Appiah inThe New York Review of Books
New York Review of Books
The Ministry of Timeby Kaliane Bradley
Dragon Trail, Newaygo, MI
Duncan the corgi sitting sweetly on the deck in front of the river
"Kill in the Name of AutoZone" by Devin Thomas O’Shea inLos Angeles Review of Books
Tortilla chips and frozen margaritas
El Burrito Loco, Big Rapids, MI
"My Freedom, My Choice" by David A. Bell inThe New York Review of Books
Hand-written storefront sign that reads Margaritas to-go
Four friends in tubes floating down the river
Muskegon River
"Translation's Drift" by Kwame Anthony Appiah inThe New York Review of Books
The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le Guin
"Notes from an Occupation" by Marilynne RobinsonThe New York Review of Books
Mel standing in front of a used bookstore storefont
The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le Guin