The Words

With apologies to j.p. sartre... a phenomenological account of this one life I know from the inside

Life (and how to live it)

On Writing

What is called thinking?

“The Words” is my take on a blog.

Above, you can view posts by broad topics. Below you’ll find a chronological list of entries. You can also head over to the search page if there’s something specific you’re hunting for.

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⁠ Keillor on writing ⁠Mar 8, 2023⁠ ⁠ “I'm a writer and writing is drudgery, not so different from cleaning hotel rooms. All writing is rewriting and it's never finished. No writer reads his own work with pleasure.” This link can't be embedded.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Meteorological Disorientation ⁠Mar 7, 2023⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Just arrived in Florida to visit my mother. It was snowing in Maine when I flew out of Bangor. Experiencing meteorological disorientation — worth exploring phenomenologically. ⁠ A New Gig ⁠Sep 24, 2022⁠ ⁠ This month, I’ve begun working part-time at my local weekly newspaper, the Island Ad-Vantages⁠ , a publication with a hundred-year history of reporting on the tidal forces of lives lived on Deer Isle, in Penobscot Bay. And while I never expected to return to the workforce... Read more⁠ ⁠ ⁠ New England Summer Camps ⁠Apr 9, 2022⁠ ⁠ Although the print magazine has been out for almost a month, my feature on how three New England summer camps are expanding access to a more diverse range of kids is now online. To report on “Widening the Circle⁠ ,” I spent some glorious summer days at Buck Lake Camp in... Read more⁠ ⁠ ⁠ The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare ⁠Dec 2, 2021⁠ ⁠ The Portland Press Herald published my letter⁠ today on the need to reassess our strategy – if you can call it that – for living with COVID-19. The letter was responding to the paper’s editorial⁠ on Nov. 30, which argued that the appearance of the omicron variant may ... Read more⁠ ⁠

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