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My eldest daughter is working musician — her current project is called Dead Gowns. You can find her music on…

If you are reading this, then you've arrived at the relaunched version of the JackBeaudoin.com website. The former site was…

There's a new observation at IslandObservations.com called Red Moon, Red Sun: Last night before bed I went out with the…

Stonington native Abby Barrows owns and operates the Deer Isle Oyster Company, a small-scale aquaculture farm where she raises oysters,…

There's a new observation at IslandObservations.com called A Tree Blooms in Stonington: I created a time lapse video of sorts…

There's a new observation at IslandObservations.com called Fox in the road: I heard the unmistakeable yap-bark of a nearby fox.

There's a new observation at IslandObservations.com called Sunset Harbor Cruise: Just about 3:15 today the sky grew dark, torrents of…

There's a new observation at IslandObservations.com called Sunset Harbor Cruise: We motored past Stonington Harbor and got a striking view…

Certain clusters of technology have earned a place in our cultural imagination. Detroit is Motor City. There’s Silicon Valley just…

From the moment it reached public beta in 2020, Obsidian has been included in practically every best note-taking app round-up…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Modernity replaces thick selves with thin personalities: You cannot be yourself as long…

Dawna Blackstone might be forgiven for feeling a little – well, intimidated – after driving nearly two hours to Orono…

The Maine Department of Transportation expects to issue initial engineering plans to replace the 90-year-old Deer Isle Causeway in late…

Most days, Jesup Memorial Library Director Matt DeLaney toils in a tiny Harry Potter-esque office tucked beneath the stairs leading…

The town of Islesboro will be moving ahead with a two-pronged approach to maintain a vital road connection between the…

In September 2023 – after nearly 10 years of planning, clearing, and construction – Darin Schwartz, his wife Dawn Elliott,…

Some local leaders are crediting municipal sea level rise and climate resilence committees for giving their communities a head start…

We do not arrive at a flourishing future by living in a self-negating presence. To arrive in a flourishing future…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called The Art of Dialogue: Taken-for-grantedness is insidious because often we become blind to…

For many Mainers, the 18-month period between 2014 and 2016 felt like the end – full-stop, definitive – of an…

For most of our average, everyday moments in this world, we are like the match. Once the combustion begins, the…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Coherence is a left brain attribute: Stephen C. Hayes explains that the “coherence effect”…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Hemispheres: Having nothing to do with the album by the Canadian rock trio…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Consistency is a trait of personality: Because personality has thingness, we can also…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called The economic interpretation of the self: It's not just modern epistemology but its…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called The disagreeable self: "Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Being One's Self - On the Difference Between Personality and Self: Where the…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Rebecoming: To re-become human implies that we are no longer human, but somehow…

I've launched a new notes site where I'll be posting research notes from my inquiry into Deinos. I converted my…

There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Deinos: The Greek word δείνος, or Deinos, appears in Sophocles’ Ode to Man…

Short-term rentals have a long and storied history in Maine’s coastal communities. On Mount Desert Island, for example, many families…

There is a 2016 photo of a young Tory Porter sitting at the business end of a 110-year-old Lombard steam…

It has been raining all summer in northern Maine, the 10th wettest summer on record, and this Wednesday in August…

Elisa Schine, a graduate student in forestry at the University of Maine, is accustomed to being in predominantly male academic…

Although the print magazine has been out for almost a month, my feature on how three New England summer camps…

It’s a hot, humid August morning in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the kind that usually yields thunder and lightning by day’s…

The Portland Press Herald published my letter today on the need to reassess our strategy – if you can call…

Murph and I had ducked into the woods in Phippsburg around 9:30 a.m., hoping to escape the July heat. No…

Over the span of thirty years, Niklas Luhmann published more than 70 books and nearly 400 academic articles—a measure of…

Originally published in The Maine Times on April 15, 1994 You will find two of the founding members of Portland’s…

Originally published in the Maine Times, February 4, 1994 Rage! Rage against the dying of the light! Do not go…