If I were drawing a map of the world, its center would be at Bass Lake, just where its outlet flows into the great, blue Lake Michigan. I have lived in California for nearly two decades, but like my forebears - my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother - I return to Lake Michigan every chance I get.
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Journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall reports from the scene – on religion and spirituality, books, writing . . . and life with a husband, a house, a nonagenarian mother, and two twenty-something kids.
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