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Garden Spot
Hello again from Sarah Graves, and from Eastport, which with a summer that lasts perhaps twenty minutes isn’t the likeliest garden spot in the world, but it may be the most enthusiastic. Despite hordes of deer, Eastporters raise flowers in profusion. … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastport, gardening, Home Repair is Homicide, Maine, Sarah Graves, Wadsworths
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Baby, Meet Bathwater
Hello again from Sarah Graves, thinking today about this morning’s headline: “Richard Russo boycotts e-books.” Well, of course he is doing no such thing. He’s simply decided to publish one book, a collaboration with his daughter and son-in-law called Interventions, … Continue reading
Upstairs Vacancy
In my head, I mean, and on that note a distracted hello again from Sarah Graves, who is thinking today about… Well, that’s the trouble. Too often lately my personal upstairs contains only cobwebs. I write a few words, then … Continue reading
Brain Food
Greeting again from Sarah Graves, who is pondering the fact that the human brain burns a calorie and a half per minute when it is thinking. This means that writing uses fuel, and that means…yes! Let’s eat! Eastport has always been a … Continue reading
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Tagged brain food, dining in Eastport, Eastport, Home Repair is Homicide, Maine, Sarah Graves
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Hair of the Dog
Sarah Graves again here, thinking about writing and dogs. But mostly dogs, to tell the truth, since for the last three months each word I write has been punctuated by a bark, growl, yap, whine, or woof. You may recall … Continue reading
The Great Indoors
Hello, it’s Sarah Graves, again, this time coming to you from The Great Indoors, which is what February is turning into in Eastport, Maine. It is if you want to keep your bones unbroken and your ligaments untorn anyway; every walking … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadia, cleaning, Eastport, Home Repair is Homicide, ice, john Jeremiah Sullivan, knitting, lighthouse, lobster, Maine, Sarah Graves, winter
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Block That Block
Hi, it’s Sarah Graves coming to you from Football Central, otherwise known as our house in Eastport, Maine. And today when so many blockers will be charging across TV screens, I thought I’d talk about that other kind of block. You … Continue reading
The Dreaded Middle
Hey, it’s Sarah Graves, here, and it’s that time, again: I’m in the middle of writing a book, and Maine is in the middle of trying to freeze and/or depress me to death. Because first of all, I don’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged crime writers, Eastport, Home Repair is Homicide, Jake Tiptree, Maine, Maine winters, mystery writers, mystery writing, Sarah Graves
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Hammers, Nails, Baling Wire, and…Books?
When I first came to Eastport, Maine, I didn’t think of the local hardware store as a bookselling opportunity. But proprietor Chris Brown had other ideas. He’s descended from Samuel Bartlett Wadsworth (1791-1874), who was uncle to Maine poet Henry Wadsworth … Continue reading
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Tagged chandlery, crime writing, Dead Level, downeast maine, Eastport, Groundhog Day Gale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Home Repair is Homicide, Jake Tiptree, Maine, maine mysteries, mysteries, mystery writers, mystery writing, pirate festival, Sarah Graves, ships chandlery, Wadsworths
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