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Lynne is a Great Lakes astrologer and journalist who currently lives in Okemos, a suburb of East Lansing and minutes from Michigan State University.  She has an interest in holistic medicine and natural and organic food.  She lives and works just minutes from Michigan State University, where she, her parents and her maternal grandmother attended college (we all graduated - whew! and yes, we are MSU sports fans). 

She spent much of her childhood and all of her summer vacations and holidays, on the shores of Lake Michigan.  Summers were spent in Northern Michigan, near Walloon Lake, where Ernest Hemmingway summered years before she was born, (his feet - and pen - left a big imprint). East Jordan, where her parent's spent their childhood and her mother's family still resides, and nearby Petoskey, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Saugatuck, on Michigan's west shore near Chicago, are still her favorite places to spend time.

She has a  cat Tigerlily (full name Princess Tigerlily Buttercup, Queen of the Faeries), a small Russian Ballet Doll collection (made at the Old Imperial Workshop of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia,  from authentic ballet costume fabrics), and a special interest in antique and period clothing and fabric from around the world (clothes from antique Indonesian blankets, from hand woven, hand died, and hand sewn cloth from a nomadic tribe of India, from antique linen tablecloths of Ireland, etc), exotic essential oils, unusual and precious stones and minerals.   

She drives a 1988, maturing Toyota station wagon whose predecessors, "the Bedouin Princess", "the Nubian Queen", and "Nimue" also "maturing" Toyota wagons, were well known figures of authority and adventure throughout the region.

Lynne has a self-syndicated Astrology Advice column that is carried in newspapers in Michigan and South Carolina.

She started her career as a journalist as a correspondent working for UPI and later free-lanced for the Detroit Free Press.  She went on to work as a broadcast journalist and News Director for MacDonald Broadcasting, and contributed stories to AP Radio as well as working as media consultant on a Congressional campaign.  She is a newspaper, magazine, and broadcast journalist, as well as a press and news consultant.  

Lynne has traveled throughout the world and lived in London, Copenhagen, (where she worked as an 'au pair' and was the daytime manager of Gallery Allen,  an art gallery owned by the beautiful and well known Danish Jytte Allen who now owns the Portobello Antique Shop in Vancouver, Canada), and New York City, before returning to Michigan where her family resides. 

She authored two activity books for children based on the history of Michigan that are in the Library of Michigan.                      

Her art work in photography, pastel and charcoal drawings, and in welded steel and cast bronze sculpture is now sitting or hanging around her home but appears periodically, in art galleries and art centers throughout the Midwest.

 Lynne is an astrologer in Okemos.  She has a weekly astrology column that appears in two Gannett newspapers, the  Battle Creek Enquirer's Wow Magazine (click on Events) and the Greenbille S. C. Greenville News Link magazine.  She also writes a Lynne Crandall's Food Column for Lansing City Pulse newspaper starting in 2002 and has had an national practice.  

Lynne is also interested in the alchemy of aromatherapy and natural perfumes.   She uses this along with astrology to help clients bring out their deeper potential for growth and change.  She also lectures and teaches workshops and classes on astrology, aromatherapy and the alchemy of natural perfume blending, the development of intuition, and tarot, throughout Michigan.

E-mail Lynne at lauralynne@caravansrai.com