7 years ago
Don’t neglect those deeds
Most genealogists would rather have a root canal (or as one told me, give birth in a store window) than spend an afternoon at the Registry of Deeds tracking metes and bounds.
Editorials
7 years ago
A rose by any other name
Intense competition encourages the marketing industry to fashion itself after a junior high dance — lovely young girls in their very best jeans and carefully coiffed hair, silently willing some boy across the room, “Oh, pick me, pick me. Don’t even look at those other girls.”
7 years ago
Sometimes clouds come
Clear blue skies are a sure sign of peak summertime. These are the days when time moves fast, and yet for a moment it stops. In the moment thoughts of peace and tranquility rise.
7 years ago
The sounds of late summer
On a recent bike ride, with goldenrod and Queen Anne’s lace lining the roads of the open countryside, the singular sound of late summer was all I could hear. What was it? The chirping of crickets.
7 years ago
Fly fishing by the seat of your pants
In the summer a lot of us males of the species love to fish. How many of you fly fish? Come on, raise your hands. I inherited my father-in-law’s fly rod when he passed away in 2013. But let me tell you about trying to learn to fly fish a few years prior to that.
7 years ago
Past summers on the lake
Camp where you like, but leave my stones alone. Climb with gentle footsteps and hang on lest you fall.
7 years ago
Spectacular September smallmouth action
We need rain! It’s been an unusually dry summer throughout Aroostook County. Tough conditions for regional farmers, home gardeners and even area brook and stream fishermen.
7 years ago
There is always joy
Clear blue skies are a sure sign of peak summertime. These are the days when time moves fast, and yet for a moment it stops. In the moment thoughts of peace and tranquility rise.
7 years ago
Disasters don’t plan ahead
There are many things we may regret in life, but being prepared for emergencies is not one of them.
