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Linda Warren

Linda Warren lives in Princeton, Massachusetts, where she writes, grows vegetables, fishes for trout, and watches birds, rivers, stars and dragonflies. Read Linda’s poem here: Great Blue Heron on the Swift River

Great Blue Heron on the Swift River

by Linda Warren I vexed a Great Blue Heron as I walked the path along the catch-and-release section of this stream that flows year round, gift of the accidental wilderness around the reservoir that quenches Boston. She didn’t move far, just to another fallen log, an easy pebble toss from where I stood. She lookedContinue reading “Great Blue Heron on the Swift River”

Climbing Mount Monadnock

by Leslie Vogel I took a day off today, and a bright and beautiful day it was, too. I went to hike up the mountain, solo; although you couldn’t really call it solo because Mount Monadnock truly lives up to its reputation as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, especially on aContinue reading “Climbing Mount Monadnock”

Leslie Vogel

Leslie Vogel lives in Greenfield New Hampshire with her husband and partner, Fred Simmons. With their home organization, Folksoul Music, they have been bringing music of all kinds to the communities of the Monadnock Region and beyond for the past three decades. As a child she spent summers with her family at the back endContinue reading “Leslie Vogel”

New work published at New England Memories

I’m pleased to announce new work in New England Memories in which three writers eloquently guide us—to the shore of the multi-natured sea, or through ripening orchards, or to blueberry fields—as they share their memories and reflections. Berith Aargh Hogan shares her story of family, loss, and solace in her lyrical essay “They, Me &Continue reading “New work published at New England Memories”

They, Me & the Sea

by Berith Arragh Hogan Since first the ticks of time recorded me in attendance I have made a yearly pilgrimage to Cape Ann on Massachusetts’s rocky North Shore – on some lucky, and some sad, occasions the trip has exceeded the yearly dictate. Funerals, weddings, Thanksgivings, spring breaks, and deathbeds dot the calendar in between.Continue reading “They, Me & the Sea”

Berith Arragh Hogan

Berith Arragh Hogan is a writer, a wife, and a mother raising her children alongside her husband in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Her first love in both reading and writing is realistic fiction, though she also very much appreciates the unique emotional outlet afforded by the personal essay. She is drawn to approaching personal essays withContinue reading “Berith Arragh Hogan”

Dappled Days

by Theresa Hickey The grandeur of sky and sea is awesome, but in an orchard, one notices small wonders every season Each turn of weather bears fruit, cleaving to the vines clinging for clemency from storms Dimpled valentines of berries, tiny jewels—red and radiant black and blue—fill baskets Pierced in their prime, flushed pinks andContinue reading “Dappled Days”