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Ghosts of Acadia
by Marcus LiBrizzi 2011 For starters, that pale foot descending the staircase (with surely a creak or two) is enough to give me pause. I always enjoy learning new things about my local haunts, and if...
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Bar Harbor Bed Races
A yearly November tradition in Bar Harbor is the PJ Sale and Bed Races. The PJ sale involves shopping between 6 and 9 in the morning while wearing your pajamas to get extra discounts. Although I loath...
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Morning Walks in Late December
Even though my natural instinct at this time of year is to sleep in as late as possible, my need to get outside in the sunlight proved stronger this week. Although I went for a walk at a perfectly...
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Smoke on the Water
Since I seem to be in no danger of going to bed yet (though the clock is eyeballing 2:30 a.m. yeesh…), I may as well post some pictures of the outrageous smoke that was tumbleweeding across the surface...
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Icy Gifts
I made plans to go walking with a friend today, but it was a stroke of genius that we chose to actually hike. There isn’t any snow on Mount Desert Island at the moment, and the ice isn’t as abundantly...
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Rough Seas
Yesterday, after agonizing for hours over what books I could realistically keep and travel with (only one box will accompany me across the country…) I felt rather tumultuous and had to get outside...
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On the Road Again
Well, I am in motion. It occurred to me that I need to stop saying “I am moving”, because that suggests that I have a final destination. In reality I have only a few stops on the journey plotted out...
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Purple Clouds and Lupine Ladies
I was going to write some movie reviews tonight, but I am really enjoying The Savage Detectives and I want to keep reading…! For the moment I will simply share with you the remarkably purple-grey...
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Last Days of January
I’ve been sick this weekend, a run-of-the-mill cold that kept me pinned to my bed more out of a desire to keep my germs to myself than any true wretchedness of spirit/nasal passages. I read three books...
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Pandorica Boxes and November Cakes
I had a couple of blog posts in mind for the weekend, but I ended up going to Burlington, VT to bid farewell to another sister (lots of farewells when you have so many sisters!) before I leave New...
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One Last Thing
I finally made it back to Maine, where I spent a lovely Christmas with my family. It had been almost two years since I saw my sisters or the Atlantic ocean. Plenty of laughter and hugs and crisp salty...
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Trollope Explores America
While perusing the interesting Pittsburgh: A New Portrait by Franklin Toker, I came across a word sketch of the city by none other than Anthony Trollope. His abundant scribblings have been on my list...
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Diversiversiversiverse…!!
The concentrated effort to support and inspire more diversity in literature headed by Aarti of BookLust – A More Diverse Universe III – has ended in it’s official sense for 2014. She wrapped up the...
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The Turn of the Page (lots of reading stats, with bonus pictures of Maine!)
I was in Maine for Christmas, and although I walked on the beach, played Dutch Blitz for hours with my sisters, spent lots of time eating all my favorite Mom-made foods, and even went on a quick...
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Finding Myself
I looked for myself in the wide open spaces between sunset colored sandstone. I looked for myself beneath a sage bush where a rattlesnake had shed last year’s skin. I looked for myself in a summer dry...
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