80 and Sunny

It’s here! The 80 and Sunny book . Makes a perfect gift for friends, family, bosses, newlyweds – whatever and whoever likes sunshine. C...

The gray clouds have been hovering over me for days now, a chilly reminder of the reality that I refuse to face: I'm in Michigan and not...

When it's hot in Michigan, hot over eighty degrees, it is as comfortable as trying on wet jeans. People like to pretend it's beautif...

Soggy and seventy like the early entry wing of an old folks home. When the weather begins to remind you of the inside of the chuck taylors y...

If today was a celebrity it would have been Don Most.

Late summer sun in Michigan is like a candle centerpiece on a wooden picnic table. It's like a folk song. It's like the marriage of ...

It's fifty degrees here in mid-Mich, meaning that I'd have to actually double down on degrees to equal just one day in the Southwest...

Travis Bickle used to say that some day a great rain was going to come and wash away all the filth. Last night a great rain came in the mid ...

Think of a greasy spoon diner on a Saturday morning, you are sitting by a window and the sun is heating up the side of your face, there’s a ...

The reverse hose-down: The more it rains here the hotter it gets.

Oh I heard it seven times today. "It's so nice out, get outside if you can!" Grocery store clerks, radio announcers, priests, ...

Here in the Great Lakes State you don't have to sweat in 80 degrees because the air does it for you. Most people get really sweaty anywa...

Locusts and lightening bugs! The entire day went by with nary a cloud passing. I dare say it was actually 80 and Sunny in Michigan. The diff...

Michigan weather is like a scoop of ice cream. It is never the same consistency twice and it makes you feel guilty if you don’t appreciate i...

I've crossed three time zones and several climates. I have yet to decide what will become of 80 and Sunny. Maybe it will be a cute nickn...

Since 80 and Sunny accomplished the goal of creatively describing the weather everyday for a full year, I have been taking a break. A break...

365 days of creatively, and oftentimes dully, describing the weather. The things I learned: 1) It is actually only 80 and Sunny around here ...

Oh the weather today. Some people call it overcast, some call it pollution, I call it little particles of industrial afterbirth. JG read in ...

So many food references come up when thinking about weather metaphors: lemonade , chili cheese Fritos , bacon, eggs, pudding - they all coul...

Shaking hands with the mid-eighties in a pottery kiln.

We are all cut potatoes in a sunshine oil deep fryer: A crispy eighty three and sunny today.

A real sizzler, without the buffet. No choices, just sun and a passing cloud if you really wanted it enough.

Hot as the inside of a human body. It was a day for napping and a night for explosives. Happy 4th of July.

In the summertime we can put Wednesday and Thursday together like a Saturday and Sunday. Both are days we don't want to work. It's b...

How does one describe a sunny day? In comparison to the day before or the dark night or the long months of hard winter that preceded it? Sho...

The brightness of the day can best be measured by how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian at dusk. The longest day has past but we won't ...

Soft side of serious heat today. My block is the injection site of the sun. Side effects include sweating, squinting, and browning around th...

A day as perfect as yellow cake with chocolate frosting.

80 and Sunny has been tripped up from it's daily message in the past week plus. It never helps to place blame but it's always easy ...

I came back in with the cool breeze today. No traces of the hot weather my guest writers complained about, until I opened up the door to my ...