Start at the Low Point
An excerpt from Blue Summer by Jim Nichols Tampa, 1995 We’ll start at that low point: a trailer park in Tampa, Florida. It’s early in the...
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Piper
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
A Modern Day Tale of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Fitting In
Marpheen Chann’s memoir Moon in Full, a contemporary coming-of-age story, is slated for release on June 21
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Piper
- Jan 12, 2021
- 9 min
A Long, Cold Winter
Trudging the last half-mile of steep uphill while pulling the sled and groceries was less fun.
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Piper
- Dec 15, 2020
- 6 min
Launching a Holiday Tradition
It was my idea to put a lighted tree on top of our seventy-foot Harvestore silo.
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Piper
- Dec 8, 2020
- 8 min
Christmas on Naskeag Point
In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..
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Piper
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
A Gratitude List
I keep a gratitude journal all year, just like Oprah. Every day I write down at least five things I’m grateful for.
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Piper
- Nov 10, 2020
- 3 min
At First Glance They Don't Have a Lot in Common
By Sam Brakeley This book combines two very different stories. One takes place between 1775 and 1776 in New York and Massachusetts, and...
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Piper
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
The Northwest Wind
By John N. Cole Of all the winds that blow, I like the northwest best. It is rare as a summer wind along this upper corner of the...
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Piper
- Oct 6, 2020
- 4 min
The Wilderness of Our Childhood
By John Holyoke The stream was narrow. It was shallow. Several times a summer, after we had climbed every tree we could climb, were...
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Piper
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
Peek into The Door to January
The house was a sad thing in the daylight. It sat on a hilltop, a sagging pile of weathered clapboards and crumbling brick...
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Piper
- Sep 29, 2020
- 6 min
There Hain't No Deer
By Dean Bennett Every year the mill shut down for a reason that most have forgotten, or never knew. Of the few that have heard of it,...
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