by RJ Heller | Apr 16, 2023 | Maine Reads
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau ******* This new collection of essays touches personal loss in a unique way. Rather than deal with it by only embracing the past through personal memories, both tenses —past and present—...
by RJ Heller | Feb 23, 2023 | Maine Reads
Time. It is in everything. It holds onto everything and sometimes it folds in on itself allowing a much-needed pause in life. This was my first thought as I closed the book Notes on the Landscape of Home by Susan Hand Shetterly. It is an exceptional collection of...
by RJ Heller | Nov 3, 2022 | Maine Reads
“We didn’t come here to escape anything but to find something” – Roy Barrette I am now better for having read Roy Barrette’s observations of life lived on his coastal farm in Maine. The 77 essays in Islandport Press’s reprint of Barrette’s 1981 book, A Countryman’s...
