Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem by Bruce Guernsey beautifully describes an icehouse of old, and the wonderful ending turns the poem into a quiet, cool ode that soothes.   The Icehouse By Bruce Guernsey   Where the puckerbrush snags your lure along the west side of the lake is […]

Candy and sugar have once again invaded our world. It began innocently enough with a gingerbread house, then lingered with the red-and-green sprinkle cookies from friends, then endured with the classroom holiday parties, the candy canes that garnish every wrapped present, and the hot chocolate with marshmallows that lures my kids on these cold days.I […]

The restaurant on California’s central coast had the feel of a boardinghouse’s communal dining room in the Old West. You could picture train brakemen and farm laborers, sleeves rolled up, their elbows on the table, swigging beer and digging into a hot meal at the end of a long day under the high, tin-stamped ceiling. […]

Teen drug and alcohol use has fallen to levels not seen since the height of the drug war in the 1990s, according to new federal survey data. The Monitoring the Future survey of about 50,000 high school students found that “considerably fewer teens reported using any illicit drug other than marijuana in the prior 12 […]

Designers really want to turn fancy pajamas into glamorous streetwear. The average shopper seems unconvinced. Yet the fashion industry will not let this idea go, despite your reluctance to wear a pair of silk pajamas to a cocktail party. Indeed, in an uncharacteristic display of independence, confidence and adherence to civility, consumers have been immune […]

Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem by Jeri Theriault celebrates the infectious nature of joy and how it is never too late for one to ride its wild waves!   Surfdancer Higgins Beach, Scarborough By Jeri Theriault   A girl rides a thick-wheeled bicycle down the hard packed   beach, […]