Author Archives: colleen

UNION RAGS WON! Surely no community can claim ties to a greater horse than Phyllis Wyeth’s Union Rags, horse extraordinaire that won the Belmont Stakes last weekend. Roseledge Books, your community bookstore and never one to miss out on a … Continue reading →

We and the mosquitoes arrived at Roseledge at Sunday dusk, none the worse for wear but VERY HAPPY to be here. Monitor heater kicked on, Internet connection did not, and we drank glass after glass of water to end the … Continue reading →

Time to pack for Maine and clear the desk of clippings. The following weathered the several-month resting test for continued interest. CONNECTIONS Degrees of separation have dropped from 6 (remember Kevin Bacon?)to 4.74 which may — or may not — … Continue reading →

Mainer friend Scott says Marshall Point is definitely the first lighthouse in the first Red Lobster commercial, which he knows because of the yellow house at the tip of Hupper’s Island which he was able to see because he cheated … Continue reading →

Always exciting, Charlie found a Tenants Harbor connection to the mosquitoes-must-die works of artist Dennis Asbraugh who, after suffering through dawn’s mosquito welts while watching local lobsterman head out, went back to his TH cottage and built wonderful mosquito killing … Continue reading →

Have you seen the Red Lobster commercial with a lobsterwoman from Spruce Head and two lighthouses? Roseledge Books Regular Steve is sure the first is Marshall Point lighthouse, five miles down the peninsula from RB. I was also sure until … Continue reading →

Well we may have had our snow of the winter. Forecast for today is high 30’s, the traces and slush ruts will melt, and it is March 1st.  It will not only feel like Spring, it will BE Spring, meterologically … Continue reading →

Easy days at the winter digs. Spectacular sunrises with reds and blues that incorrectly promised later moisture.  Sailors did not have to take warning. Today’s blurry sky may change the tenor of our very warm — well, mild — snowless … Continue reading →

My sister died last month, two weeks to the day after she went to the ER with a stomach ache. Call the cause complications of surgery or infection, both of which it was, her death was also surprising and, now, … Continue reading →

Amanda Knox was freed from an Italian jail last week. “Whew,” said a friend and RB reader who knew to be worried after reading Donna Leon’s mysteries set in Venice. “Who’s surprised about the prescription drug shortage?” asked a medical … Continue reading →