My clean diet defies the experts. It includes red meat, butter and alcohol...and my lab numbers are GORGEOUS In this cookbook I'll show you how I 'diet' happily, and look forward to every bite, not because I am starving (I don't do starving, thank you), but because everything tastes so good. The Defiant Diet is simple, satisfying, healthy and will drive your Doctor crazy.

This is a romantic comedy with serious moments. Don, a widowed GM retiree, has moved to his family cottage in Northern Michigan, and happily interacts with other eccentrics and...younger women. Michele, a divorced grade school teacher...of a similar age...buys a neighboring cottage as a summer home. The oddities and culture of Northern Michigan are seen through the teacher's eyes. Life and all its vicissitudes, with humor, anger, love, sex and a pinch of mischief. Family and all its trials, with active grandparents, divorced/widowed adult children and innocent, happy grandchildren. Don has an...