Amid the Mermaid Tears

Amid the Mermaid Tears

"I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that [...]

Adventures at Willard Beach, Fort Preble, and Spring Point Ledge

Adventures at Willard Beach, Fort Preble, and Spring Point Ledge

"One moment I gaz'd from the hill's gentle slope, All hush'd was the billows' commotion, And tho't that the Light-house look'd lovely as Hope, That star of life's tremulous ocean." ~Thomas Moore For years, I use to curse a long winding road in the heart of Portland, Maine. With confusing lights and a weird name, I did [...]