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	<description>Creative Non-Fiction from Donald Holmes Lewis</description>
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		<title>Do They Snarl and Bare Their Teeth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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By Donald Holmes Lewis
Published on August 14 in The Cheboygan Daily Tribune.
 
      Even though I rented a splitter a couple of months go and stacked what I thought was enough birch to last me through the winter, the wood is half gone.  Some summer we’ve had. Had a fire going in the fireplace most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Top Ten Reasons for Moving Up North</title>
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By Donald Holmes Lewis
Published on August 7, 2009 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.
 
      The other day my friend Chip from Columbus, Ohio called me. He wanted to know how we were doing since we moved to Cheboygan in March. Like every one of the old cadre from down south, whenever they check in with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Birds&#8221; on Mullett Lake</title>
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By Donald Holmes Lewis
Published on July 31, 2009 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.
 
     And I thought carpenter ants were the scourge of my summer. Wrong. Now, each morning when I plant my feet on the floor beside my bed and rub the sleep from my eyes, I look down towards the lake and there they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Nice Walleye</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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By Donald Holmes Lewis
Published on July 24, 2009 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.
 



     When Max, our twenty four year old son, arrived at our cottage last Saturday afternoon, he uttered words I’d never heard before.
     “Hey Dad, can we go fishing? I bought a license on the way up.”
     “Sure,” I responded with confidence though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winterizing Season Approacheth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Holmes Lewis
Published  on July 17 in The Cheboygan Daily Tribune.  \
  
     O.K. Let’s be honest. We’re well past the Fourth of July. During the last couple of days, it dawned on me like a two by four to the forehead. Winterize now. We’ve moved to a summer cottage, we don’t have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carpenter Ants in the Back Cabin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Holmes Lewis
Published on July 10, 2009 in The Cheboygan Daily Tribune.
    
     This past Tuesday I made another list. I had a lot of things on it I wanted to do, almost fifteen total, and a couple my wife put on it for me. My stuff started with “Split More Wood” but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Five to Nine Horse Outboard Motor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                                                  Looking for Five to Nine Horse Outboard Motor
                                                                By Donald Holmes Lewis
 
Published June 26, 2009 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.
 
       I made a new year’s resolution this past January in secret. I didn’t tell my wife because most of my promises about changing my very nature have the life span of a mayfly. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of the Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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By Donald Holmes Lewis

 
 
Published May 29, 2009 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune
 
 
     On Memorial Day, I decided to drive all the way around Mullett Lake. It was a brilliant late spring morning and the wind was a steady thirty miles an hour from the east. White caps rolled over my dock like ocean waves. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hotel Topinabee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Published May 16, 2009 Cheboygan Daily Tribune



By Donald H. Lewis
    
    Sometimes the urge for a great sandwich hits me like a kick from a mule and I have to respond, so I stopped at The Breakers restaurant in Topinabee for an olive burger not long ago.
    Maybe it was the hint of summer along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Dreamt of Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s Ear</title>
		<link>http://americanconsensus.com/disc1/?p=967</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 13:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Holmes Lewis
Copyright 2009 

I dreamt of Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s ear last night and I blew warm air into it like an intimate friend would do. I hoped to comfort him. The League of Nations was dead, and he was still sick. Our world of hope was dissolving like seltzer in water. &#8220;It&#8217;s not your fault,&#8221; I whispered. &#8220;It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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