A New Look for Spring

Spring is in the air here on Mount Desert Island. A couple of 50-degree days have left major snowbanks mere molehills of their former selves. And even though Accuweather is forecasting an additional 3-6 inches of snow for tonight into tomorrow, this week still seemed...

Life’s Curveballs

I had so sincerely intended to post a first excerpt from the book last week. But, as often happens, life gets in the way. Now I’m shooting for this week. But … I’ve got a really, really good reason for being such a “slacker.” About a month ago, two very interesting...

When One Door Closes

Maybe it’s grown into a tradition for this date, but here’s the update to last year’s December 11 post, “What a Difference a Year Makes.” This Spring found us moving again, which is a story unto itself. But the Reader’s Digest version is that our landlord “surprised”...

What a Difference a Year Makes

What a difference a year makes! Last December 11, I posted an entry in another of my blogs in which I announced plans to pick up stakes, living a life of freedom, travel, writing, and photography and working from wherever life happened to take us. The Universe had...
Jersey Girl in Exile

Jersey Girl in Exile

I lived in New Jersey 52 years, 5 months, and 3 days–a born-and-bred Jersey Girl. I’ve now lived in Maine for less than 2 months. Is it home? Yes, in the most literal sense, it is now “home.” I am here with the love of my life, my husband Tim. We scaled back the...

Charting a Course for 2010

By now it’s no surprise to our closest friends and family that Tim and I are planning to sell our home after the holidays. What they are surprised at is our plan beyond that. See, we’re lining our ducks up in a row so that we can live a life untethered for…well, we’ll...