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Finding Sarah
Things got way too real in New Hope, PA last weekend. A young woman disappeared while walking home from a night with friends, and within hours of her vanishing the word went out: Find Sarah. By the next day, search parties … Continue reading
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Standing Up for Words
As writers, we are constantly telling ourselves to keep our butts in our chairs and get those words on the page. Vicki Doudera here. We’re right to realize that focusing on the task at hand – rather than social networking, … Continue reading
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Tagged Darby Farr Mysteries, James Levine, MD, Sitting all day and health, treadmill desk, Vicki Doudera
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What They’re Reading at Mount View High School
I had the pleasure on Thursday of winding my way across snowy roads from Camden up through Hope, Searsmont, Liberty, Belmont, and a whole host of other small … Continue reading
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Tagged Darby Farr Mysteries, Mount View High School, Thorndike, Vicki Doudera
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Famous Last Words
Paul Doiron here— Last month, we wrote about our favorite first lines from novels. Well, lately I’ve been thinking about favorite last lines. Ernest Hemingway supposedly wrote 47 endings to A Farewell to Arms—some of them more philosophical and emotionally expressive than … Continue reading
Little-Known Holidays
Well, here we are again in January, which means no good holidays for a while. And by ‘good’ I mean ones with food, decorations, costumes, and gifts. Not until Easter do we get to bite into so much as a … Continue reading
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Aha! It’s Epiphany
Vicki Doudera here, at my desk on this snowy Monday. Yesterday was The Feast of Epiphany, occurring on the twelfth day of Christmas, a holiday that has always been one of my favorites. I love the story of the Magi, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoration of the Magi, Darby Farr, Epiphany, Oprah Winfrey, Vicki Doudera, writing mysteries
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My 12 Favorite Maine Stories of 2012
Paul Doiron here— Magazine editors aren’t supposed to have favorites. Like parents we are expected to love all of our offspring equally. Of course, that isn’t the case (with editors or with parents). There are stories we boast about and … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Diamon, Bald Mountain, Belfast, bootlegging, Caucuses, Colin Woodard, Cynthia Anderson, Deborah Weisgall, Down East Magazine, Edgar Allen Beem, Eels, Islesboro, Lawrence Sargent Hall, Maine, Maine GOP, Maine oysters, Moonbat Kingdom, moonshine, Paul Doiron, Seals, Susan Hand Shetterly, Virginia M. Wright, Will Bleakley, Winslow Homer's Prouts Neck
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A Home for the Holidays
Vicki Doudera here on this Saturday before Christmas, to tell you about one of the best gifts ever. It’s not a soft cashmere sweater, although those can come in handy on these brisk winter days. And it’s not an all-expenses … Continue reading
Falling Through the Ice
Paul Doiron here— The other day, while I was driving, I noticed a person standing on a half-frozen pond. I have no idea what he was doing out there, but the first ice of the winter seems to do strange … Continue reading
Things You Might Like
Hello again from Sarah Graves, who today is hunkered down on this icy little rock halfway out in the North Atlantic, or at least that’s how it feels. It’s the kind of day when your mother used to say you’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastport, guilty pleasures, Home Repair is Homicide, Maine, Sarah Graves
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