Maine
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Things don’t ever change
It’s horrible when a mass shooting occurs, anywhere in the United States, which is where it happens so frequently. It’s even more tragic when it happens in a place you know well.That’s happened to me three times in a little more than a decade: Newtown, Connecticut, near where I grew up; Pittsburgh, where I’ve lived; Continue reading
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‘Maine in Mourning’
I hadn’t been paying attention to the news Wednesday night but checked my email to find mention of the president being informed about the latest mass shooting. Reflexively, I Googled and lost a breath with the answer.Maine.I’ve never lived in Lewiston, which is in southern Maine, hours from where I lived in the northern part Continue reading
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Smoke, wildfires now and a quarter-century ago
The otherworldly smoke and health threats this week from plumes from Canadian wildfires — and the unreal photos from New York City and Hudson Valley, among other places — make it difficult for me to reconcile the places I used to live with the Mars-like skies of now. I can’t imagine what it must be Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 