

My City*: Portland Maine
This is the unedited version of my article published in the December 2016 issue of: The Simple Things magazine (U.K.) See...


The Standard Baking Company, Portland
All five senses came alive the moment I entered the tiny, warm bakery on a rainy day-before-Thanksgiving. I was truly like a kid in a...


Apple Picking at Giles Family Farm, Alfred
It was our good friends who told us, when our kids were small, that we had to go to “The Brothers” for apples. These friends own Camp...


Paddle Boarding the Spurwink River, Scarborough
“There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious...


Chebeague Island Inn
Nantucket has nothing over Great Chebeague Island. Well…I do love Nantucket. Riding bikes with my husband when our marriage was new to...


"Upta Camp" at Loon Lake, Rangeley
There’s no internet, WIFI or otherwise. In the early days, I wouldn’t even have noticed such a thing. Who cared? I’ve only set up...


The House at Two Lights State Park
Also featured on The Huffington Post When we first got our drivers licenses and discovered new-found independence, Two Lights State Park...


Falling Waters in Bar Harbor
Also featured on The Huffington Post In February, with his birthday money still saved from December, my husband began searching the...


Rockport, The Samoset Resort and Marine Park
(Photo also published in May issue of Downeast Magazine) There’s something deliciously luxurious about “getting away” up the coast in the...


Marginal Way, Ogunquit
My mom always took us sunbathing and swimming at the beach, but it was my father who introduced me to the ocean. Divorced from my mom, he...