The Family Dollar

Taxicabs idle in the parking lot, engines running against the cold, drivers watching the abandoned gas station-convenience store on the … More

Nearby Nature, 130 Years Ago and Today

Nature is having a moment. Record numbers of people are visiting parks and conservation areas, overwhelming parking lots, crowding trails, … More

“Sometimes, when I’m walking along the rocky shore, Spartina far from my mind, I encounter a handful of shoots in … More

Sheepscot River, Maine – To a girl who grew up reading poetry and playing in Allegheny streams, a storyteller who … More

The Damariscotta River oyster piles are the largest middens on the East Coast north of Florida. Why are they so … More

April has turned to May, and the goldeneye ducks have left their winter home on the Penobscot River and headed … More

The essay “One Letter Away” is included in the Three Nations Anthology from Resolute Bear Press, edited by Valerie Lawson. … More

The sand, smoothed by the tide, glitters with flecks of mica and quartz. The beach ends at an outcropping of … More

I revisited Adam Campbell and North Haven Oyster Company for Issue 5 of the magazine Collective Quarterly. The Collective is … More

Each variety of oyster—that craggy and somewhat mysterious shellfish—has a story to tell. But every oyster story must first include … More