Snowmobile Lessons

My sister and I grew up on snowmobiles. Weekends and evenings were spent outside sliding off the back of the slick seat of a 1981 Ski-Doo, trying to hang on to one another, riding double.  Of course, the point was to dump the other one off, pretend we didn’t notice and leave a sister in […]

Dish Duty

It’s almost time for traditional huge holiday meals that fill an entire kitchen with enough food for 20 people for a week. Especially if your parents and grandparents are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. When I was growing up, holiday meals were a big deal. Times two.  Two Grandma’s houses. One in Curtis. One […]

15th Anniversary Highlights!

This month marks the 15th anniversary of GTWoman! Here are our top 10 highlights over the years, whether we like them or not:  1. The time on our first motor coach trip to Chicago when we decided to go to our first-ever drag queen club. The bouncer eyed 10 women from Northern Michigan, as green […]

It’s the law…

The kids wanted to go for a four-wheeler ride. My son Nelson took our ATV (his brother was at soccer!) while my sister’s two kids had to… steal Grandpa’s. It was fine. Kind of. Grandpa wasn’t around but they had to go soon if they were going. It was late in the afternoon. So a […]

Playing Luigi

Feeling nostalgic one night, my boys brought their Mario Bros. Wii game out of retirement. I was delighted. Back when they were little, I would play tournaments with them and wasn’t half-bad. I was all-bad. All four of us decided to play. My husband, Tim, was a yellow toad. Nelson, age 13, was a blue […]