Long Journey Home
Sarah E. Reynolds is assistant editor for the Courier-Gazette and copy editor for the Camden Herald.
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Asking for trouble -- again
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Sep 28Let me just get myself into a little more hot water here about politics and religion. I've already annoyed at least one reader, who objected to my ...
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The grip of the present
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Aug 31"You never miss the water until the well runs dry," as the saying goes. I can state unequivocally, however, that once the well does run dry, it ...
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An embrace wide enough for the whole world
By Sarah E. Reyolds - Aug 03I've seen a couple of bio-pics this summer about people I admire: "RBG," about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and "Won't You Be My ...
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Adventures way Down East
By Sarah E. Reyolds - Jul 06We went way Down East to celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary (and 18 years of being together). I had wanted to see Campobello Island for a ...
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A piece of my mind: not all that's lost is found
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jun 01In her great poem, "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop counsels, with devastating irony, that we learn "the art of losing." And I seem to be taking her ...
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Spring fever for people and dogs
By Sarah E. Reynolds - May 18Looking at the weather forecast a couple of weeks ago, I saw that we were supposed to have the first 80-degree day of the year in the middle of ...
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Reconsidering my TV snobbery
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Apr 20Limiting so-called screen time is hardly a new idea. When I was growing up, more than a few years ago, I was allowed to watch only so much TV. ...
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Sick day: the upside of feeling down
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Mar 23I was sick with a cold during one of our recent colossal dumpings of snow, so I had a couple of sick/snow days. I was working from home -- the ...
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Lent: the journey to love and joy
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 23It's Lent. The word comes from Old English, and refers to the lengthening of the days in late winter. Which adds a note of hope even to this ...
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Where's Lassie when you need her?
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jan 26Remember "Lassie"? That collie was amazing, with her ability to understand what her humans needed in moments of peril and, even more, her ability ...
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On the intersection of religion and politics
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Sep 14One of the vexed questions our country has wrestled with for the last many years has been the proper intersection of religion and politics, and -- ...
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Adventures on the Sunrise Trail
By Sarah E. Reyolds - Aug 17A blue tongue of sky lolled through cloud as the ATV whined along the pine-scented trail between Ellsworth and Machias. I was on vacation, and ...
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Right as you usually are
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jul 20One of the hazards of the modern workplace -- like the rest of the modern world -- is noise. Of course, the definition of "noise" is "sound that ...
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Let's hear it for passionate moderation
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jun 22Somewhat to my surprise, Maine voted to keep the ranked-choice voting system at the polls June 12. I know some opponents of Question 1 have said ...
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'Positive' is an attitude, not an outcome
By Sarah E. Reynolds - May 19As an adjective meaning "cheerful, optimistic or inspiring," the word "positive" describes an attitude rather than a story, event or outcome, it ...
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Rosie swims, but she doesn't bathe
By Sarah E. Reynolds - May 04Bill Cosby, back when he was just an up-and-coming comic who talked about the vicissitudes of family life, famously remarked on how 2-year-olds ...
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Transformed by love
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Apr 06Along with Christmas, Easter celebrates love. But if Christmas is about reclaiming innocence in order to make a home in our hearts for love, ...
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The practice of being present
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Mar 09Do you have a spiritual practice? What is it? Often people think of spiritual practice as something done by holy people sitting by themselves in a ...
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Goodnight, sleep tight
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 09I remember my maternal grandfather napping in the big leather armchair in my parents' living room. He'd say he was just closing his eyes for a few ...
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Holiday mishaps, or, why don't you just stay home?
By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jan 12So, the Friday after Christmas, we were going to visit my brother and Maureen's brother and their families in Connecticut. We hoped to make a stop ...
