Traveling Through the Pages of Lost Love

Let’s take a tour of some of the locations I featured in Lost Love which is set in Detroit, Michigan. This novel is a love letter to my hometown and I wanted to showcase some of my favorite places to travel within the city. Location #1: Detroit Riverwalk The Detroit Riverwalk connects parks, greenways, and…

My Top 5 Favorite Local Bookstores

Hello everyone! I love visiting independent bookstores and shopping at local businesses regularly. Because it’s important to #shopsmall, here are some bookstores in the Metro Detroit area that you should visit when you’re here. Some of these shops have websites that you can shop at as well if you can’t shop in person! Source Booksellers…

2025 Juneteenth Event: Black Book Fair & Brunch Recap

On June 21st, I got the opportunity to participate in Plates & Pages: A Black Book Fair & Brunch hosted by the lovely Indigo Kerr who is the owner of Indigo Ink Illustrations. I was looking forward to this event so much and despite the early morning storms and heatwave (it was about 90 degrees…

Car collectors make pit stop at Autorama 2016 in Detroit

Rachel Moulden for Digital First Media Kevin Bachert of Royal Oak has loved classic cars ever since he was young boy. He always enjoyed the look of older cars, and his favorite car growing up was the ’57 Chevy. “Being born in the ’50s, I always felt the cars from ’64 to ’67 were really…