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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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…
2024-06-28 | The art of dialogue
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…
2024-06-20 | Old Mill, New Market—TimberHP Brings a Paperless Future to Madison
For many Mainers, the 18-month period between 2014 and 2016 felt like the end – full-stop, definitive – of an…
2024-06-17 | Striking the Match
For most of our average, everyday moments in this world, we are like the match. Once the combustion begins, the…
2024-05-27 | Coherence is a left brain attribute
There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Coherence is a left brain attribute: Stephen C. Hayes explains that the “coherence effect”…
2024-05-27 | Hemispheres
There's a new note at deinos.blot.im called Hemispheres: Having nothing to do with the album by the Canadian rock trio…
