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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2022-03-21 | Widening the Circle
It’s a hot, humid August morning in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the kind that usually yields thunder and lightning by day’s…
2021-12-02 | Letter to the Editor on COVID-19 Response
The Portland Press Herald published my letter today on the need to reassess our strategy – if you can call…
2021-09-21 | Old Mother West Wind, Laughing Brook, and the Stories that Inspired Generations
Murph and I had ducked into the woods in Phippsburg around 9:30 a.m., hoping to escape the July heat. No…
2020-08-02 | This simple but powerful analog method will rocket your productivity
Over the span of thirty years, Niklas Luhmann published more than 70 books and nearly 400 academic articles—a measure of…
1994-04-15 | 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…
1994-02-04 | The Fear of Not Dying
Originally published in the Maine Times, February 4, 1994 Rage! Rage against the dying of the light! Do not go…
