Tag Archives: Maine
Augmented reality
Frog weather
Obsession and intervention
The boat wins out
You’re invited!
Rear view mirror
The scene in my mind was fifty years old, but the setting was unchanged. My ghost boats could have glided in, peopled by their ghost crews, and moored in their old slips. I don’t need to visit the cemetery to memorialize my dead; they are all around me each time I go home. That is a great reason to visit, and an even better one to leave.
Oops! I Did It Again
I promised that I’d do no more off-roading in my aged Prius after our almost-disastrous mud extravaganza in April. I really meant it this time, since I just replaced the springs last fall. The casual tourist tootles up Route 1 and completely dismisses Northport as having “nothing there.” Its gems are hidden off the main drag. You […]
Which way to Millinocket?
My Christmas recommendation
My son had plowed past the Hardy Boys and devoured my entire collection of PG Wodehouse. Trips to the local library were proving frustrating and fruitless. One day he came home with a copy of Cordelia Underwood, or, The marvelous beginnings of the Moosepath League. Its author, Van Reid, is a regional Maine author with […]