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If fairies were to live anywhere, they would live along a stretch of the Cedar Cathedral Trail in the Grand Traverse Commons, called the Fairy Trails Project. Along these paths, tiny houses made of pine cones, shells, and rocks invite woodland fairies to inhabit their own little corners of Traverse City. The Fairy Trails Project was started ...
By Anna Faller
December, 2017
Prolific author, Michael Taillard, was not always a writer -- at least, not by trade. Taillard actually began college as a tuba performance major and part-time body piercer, but after taking his first economics course, he says, “everything just kind of clicked.” Taillard was initially drawn to economics by the ...



Author Next Door: Marina Nieman Call
November 2017
Marina Call is a freelance writer currently working on her second novel. Originally from southern California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in History of Art and Architecture. She continued her studies in Rome where she completed her Global MBA ...

Jennifer C. Weil says it might seem a cliché, but she sees the ordinary in the extraordinary and the extraordinary in the ordinary. “It’s an implicit relationship. It might even be necessary for happiness,” said Weil, who recently published Coral Tree: A Costa Rican Canon, a set of short stories inspired by time ...