Photo of the Week: Strolling the Boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan

sign showing distances to Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC greets walkers at the entrance of the boardwalk

What a beautiful fall day it was to walk along the boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan on the northern shore of Lake Michigan. I knew I had traveled a far distance over the weekend. What I didn’t realize: it’s shorter to travel to Chicago, Illinois from Manistique, Michigan than to return back to metro Detroit, Michigan… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Strolling the Boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan

Melinda Gates: Break Down the Barriers Keeping Women out of Technology

Melinda Gates at lectern, pausing and smiling during her talk

When Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, kicked off the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference with her keynote today, she shared a fascinating story about her youth and her first love.

She fell in love in high school. Hard.

It was an all-consuming love, changing how she felt about her life, what she did, and how she lived.

However, her husband Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is not fond of this story from her high school years.

Why? Continue reading Melinda Gates: Break Down the Barriers Keeping Women out of Technology

Photo of the Week: Kitch-iti-kipi at Palms Book State Park

covered raft filled with people travels across blue-green waters of freshwater spring

Imagine you’re on a raft with about a dozen other people. The raft has a see-through bottom in the middle.

You’re all peering below at the incredible crystal blue-green clear water beneath you.

Lake trout, brown trout, and brook trout lazily swim underneath as you slowly pass over lime-encrusted tree trunks and branches in the 40-foot deep pool of water.

Think you’re in Florida?

No, think again.

You’re in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, crossing the largest freshwater spring in the state. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Kitch-iti-kipi at Palms Book State Park