I’ve finally become the son my father always wanted: I’m a regular at the hardware store. It started a few months ago. Our neighbors had a snowmobile dying a slow death in their yard, and Nelson finally worked up the nerve to ask if he could haul that thing home and resuscitate it. Imagine his […]
Essay
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 […]
Motocross Mayhem
Motocross has entered our family life, much to my protest. It started with my 13-year-old son Nelson asking to race his four-wheeler. When I said no, he narrowed his mission: just one race? When I still said no, he went one smaller: one race and he would come in last. It’s hard to deny someone […]
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 […]
Traverse Magazine essay: The Blanket
I published an essay in the May 2016 issue of Traverse Magazine. We took the kids out back several nights last summer. Spread a big blanket in the yard, a huge fuzzy one from the flea market in Buckley. I picked it out after seven years of not picking it out. Read more here: http://mynorth.com/2016/05/kandace-chapples-northern-michigan-fleece-blanket/
You must be logged in to post a comment.