Featured Essays
Altruistic Hiking
by L.M. Browning Featuring field photos by the author. This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store» May 4, 2015 | Napatree Point, Rhode...
Pointed Reminders: Revolutionary Obelisks by David K. Leff
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Narrative is an important means by which to gain access to the meanings of the obelisk. —Grant Parker, Stanford University It needled the sky like a stone rocket aimed for the clouds. As I gazed heavenward along the...
Building a Temple of the Heart by Perle Besserman
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Photo by Ryan Upp, Feature Photographer of the Issue Building a Temple of the Heart by Perle Besserman When my husband and I first met as residents in a Honolulu Zen center, we were each holding fast to some very...
Listening to Our Listening by Gary Whited
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Last summer I sat on top of Hurricane Point overlooking Silver Lake in central New Hampshire. Wind sounded through scant trees on the steep little hill mingled with the hum of a distant motorboat, then two of...
Summer People by Gail Collins-Ranadive
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Abandoned!! I felt utterly abandoned, stranded in front of the neighborhood ice cream stand, reading the ‘closed for the season’ sign. It was after Labor Day, the official end of summer, and 25,000 copies of...
Independent Books, Independent Minds
Our Indie Bookstore Spotlight: Bank Square Books, Mystic Connecticut
The River and its Way
Article Appears in The Wayfarer Vol 3 Iss 4 | Winter 2014 | Visit our Shop to Order» Image by Duncan George | Feature Artist for the Issue Essay by Jason Kirkey When I was very young my family lived on a ridge that divides two watersheds. On the eastern side of...
The Last Hermit in New England
The Last Hermit in New England by Eric D. Lehman, Autumn 2014
It’s Complicated: Living the Simple Life in Rural New England
It’s Complicated: Living the Simple Life in Rural New England by Gail Collins-Ranadive
The Lake by Shannon Viola
Featured in Vol. 3 Issue 3, Autumn 2014 Header Image by © Leslie M. Browning I. Videnda My cousins, Corey, Lindsey, Hailey, and I call our grandmother Nanny, and our Nanny lives in a log cabin in Litchfield, Maine. Across from her street, there is a lake. We spend our...
The Men Died First
Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 (Summer 2014) Header: © Kate Mereand-Sinha by Sharlene Cochrane In my family, the men died first; the women carried on. Women in three consecutive generations faced the death of their husbands from early, unexpected illness. Necessity shaped...
Being the Lone Bannerman: Advice for New Writers on Getting Published
Edited by L.M. Browning Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 Each week Homebound Publications receives numerous phone calls and emails from unpublished writers who are looking for guidance as they desperately try to break into the industry. Each person usually asks...
Loneliest Beach In The Megalopolis
Walking And Dreaming On A City’s Wild Shore by David K. Leff Appeared in The Wayfarer Vol 2 Issue 1 Header photo by Jacquie Roecker It’s a breezy, cloud studded summer day on Connecticut’s longest undeveloped and unprotected barrier beach less than an hour’s drive...