Seadogs at the Sportsman's Grill
Originally published in The Maine Times on April 15, 1994 You will find two of the founding members of Portland’s…
Welcome!
❝A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.❞
— Thomas Mann
Salût! I’m Jack — an ink-stained wretch living and working on a small island in Penobscot Bay. I write essays, articles, stories, and feuilletons to better understand the world to make meaning as a last-ditch effort against entropy.
Please have a look around the site — you can browse my clips, read more about my work or leave me a message.
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2025-07-20 | First Summer Thunderstorm
There's a new observation at IslandObservations.com called Sunset Harbor Cruise: Just about 3:15 today the sky grew dark, torrents of…
2025-07-18 | Sunset Harbor Cruise
There's a new observation at IslandObservations.com called Sunset Harbor Cruise: We motored past Stonington Harbor and got a striking view…
2025-06-20 | Tree-Based Tech — The Future of Maine’s Forest Products Industry
Certain clusters of technology have earned a place in our cultural imagination. Detroit is Motor City. There’s Silicon Valley just…
2025-05-29 | How to get started with the Obsidian app
From the moment it reached public beta in 2020, Obsidian has been included in practically every best note-taking app round-up…
2025-05-26 | Modernity replaces thick selves with thin personalities
There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Modernity replaces thick selves with thin personalities: You cannot be yourself as long…
2025-03-20 | A Master Class in the Outdoors
Dawna Blackstone might be forgiven for feeling a little – well, intimidated – after driving nearly two hours to Orono…
