by RJ Heller | Nov 4, 2025 | Life Downeast
Sometimes we need to find the still water in our life. Whether it comes from a trip to somewhere, a routine, a game or just a quiet reflective pause. To be still is to become. ******* This time and place in our lives feels angry. Confusion reigns from small towns and...
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 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...
