by RJ Heller | Feb 2, 2022 | Maine Reads
I took my love, I took it down / I climbed a mountain and I turned around / And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills / ‘Til the landslide brought me down — Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac ******* The power of music can sometimes be a light switch. When in...
by RJ Heller | Feb 1, 2022 | Life Downeast
The storm was fierce. She tries to hold fast to the pilings that moored her all these years, but her brittle bones snap from that last bite of a January storm. Her scream was horrific, though no one heard it. In that moment, wind howling, surf pounding unforgiving...
by RJ Heller | Nov 12, 2021 | Random Thoughts
We have been through a lot these past couple of years. Doubts abound about the status of our humanity towards one another. I had doubts. So I went to the river. There, my concerns floated away in the company of strangers with every stroke of the paddle. The Allagash...
by RJ Heller | Aug 27, 2021 | Random Thoughts
What if we all held onto our childlike view of the world, held onto that wonder of play we knew as a kid. Sometimes I think of Holden Caulfield. I wonder what the world would look like if J.D. Salinger’s protagonist actually pulled off what he wanted to do — be the...
by RJ Heller | Aug 5, 2021 | Maine Reads
“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains” — Peggy Noonan ******* Radio. Remember radio? How about talk radio? We would wake up to it, switch it on after starting the car, lose oneself in it, argue with it and sometimes...
