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 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...
by RJ Heller | Jun 28, 2021 | Maine Reads
Can lightning strike twice? It sure can when it comes to a long-ago published book that readers kept asking its author about and also happens to be that author’s favorite book. It’s just a matter of time when something has to give. That time is now. After 18 years,...
