This past summer, I took a trip with my family to northern Michigan. We rented a cabin on Houghton Lake and went to visit Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It was really beautiful up there and we had a great time riding our bikes around and enjoying the peace and quiet.
There's a Native American story about Sleeping Bear Dunes. There was a mother bear with her two cubs near the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. A forest fire forced the mother bear to begin swimming out into Lake Michigan while her young cubs followed her. She swam and swam through the night until finally the next day she reached the Michigan shore on the other side of the lake. She looked back and her two babies were not there. They had drowned in the night. She was so stricken by grief that she lied down on the Michigan beach, looking out into the lake, waiting for her cubs to come to shore. The mother bear became Sleeping Bear Dunes and her babies turned into North and South Manitou islands, just off shore.
While we were at the lake, we were all waiting in suspense for confirmation that Jason and Erin were having a baby. Finally, we got the wonderful news and indeed they will become parents this March and I WILL BE AN UNCLE!!!!!!!
Congratulations Jason and Erin and many thanks to my family and friends for an incredible summer!
