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Dusting off the Ghosts of my Maine Ancestors in my Debut Novel
Image: Malaga Island Residents with Missionary, 1909, Harper’s Weekly, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “Never let your family read your work. They will either think you’re a genius or a fool, and neither is good for your writing.” –unknown (often attributed to John Steinbeck) I recently launched my first novel, Goode Vibrations of the Wresting…
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From Wilderness to Order: Violence Against Wolves
Eastern Wolf Image Credit: Michael Runtz, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In the great forests of Maine, my home state, the wolf population is completely eradicated. Today there are coyote-wolf hybrids, but Eastern Wolves have not roamed our woods and shores for more than a century. In the early 1800s, coastal sheep farmers…
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Harmonious Vibrations All Around Us
Image Credit: Author When I walk in the woods of the state park near my home or take a stroll down to the seaside, I somehow become more connected to my own body’s natural rhythms. My tension lessons, my body relaxes, and my mind clears. Is this a psychological adjustment to walking away from my…
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The Witch Hunt: A Brief History
In honor of Women’s History Month “…a greater number of witches is found in the fragile feminine sex than among men; it is indeed a fact that it is idle to contradict, since it is accredited by actual experience, apart from the verbal testimony of credible witnesses … all witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which…
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Intuition: Our Emotional Balance
What is our subconscious telling us? The phenomenon of intuition—a hunch or gut feeling—is also known as the sixth sense or the power of perceiving beyond the ordinary five senses. These perceptions can explain how we know things before they can be explained, almost like a lightbulb going off. This is our unconscious or subconscious…
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Spirits of Exile: Malaga Island and the Displaced
In honor of black history month A fishing community wrested from an island in Maine over a century ago In 1912, nearly fifty years after slavery was abolished in the United States, an interracial community living on Malaga Island off the mid-coast of Maine was exiled by the governor at the time, Frederick Plaisted. Even…