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.
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2025-01-30 | Racing against the tide
The Maine Department of Transportation expects to issue initial engineering plans to replace the 90-year-old Deer Isle Causeway in late…
2024-12-21 | A Novel Use for Eastern Hemlock
Most days, Jesup Memorial Library Director Matt DeLaney toils in a tiny Harry Potter-esque office tucked beneath the stairs leading…
2024-09-24 | When you can’t get there from here
The town of Islesboro will be moving ahead with a two-pronged approach to maintain a vital road connection between the…
2024-09-21 | Help in a Hard Time
In September 2023 – after nearly 10 years of planning, clearing, and construction – Darin Schwartz, his wife Dawn Elliott,…
2024-08-19 | Planning for a stormy future pays off
Some local leaders are crediting municipal sea level rise and climate resilence committees for giving their communities a head start…
2024-06-29 | Happiness, Eudaemonia and Time
We do not arrive at a flourishing future by living in a self-negating presence. To arrive in a flourishing future…
