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RJ Heller
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Freelance Writer, Journalist, Columnist, Book Critic and Photographer, Freelance
Maine
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Biography
I am here now and I am not leaving. It certainly has been a long road to get here, but I am here in Maine, specifically Starboard, Maine. Better yet, I live Downeast. Having arrived here from Pennsylvania there has been plenty to learn and even more to observe. This place is different, but I mean that in a good way. Yes, I am a PFA (person from away) but rather than make change, I preserve all that I find. I have a teaching degree, was an entrepreneur for 30 years and a husband and father of two children with my wife Stephanie. In 2012, I published my first collection of prose and poetry titled Holding Grace. Since 2015 I have been a journalist for The Quoddy Tides, a newspaper out of Eastport, Maine and contribute regularly to other newspapers in the area, including Bangor Daily News. My column Life Downeast tells about my transition from Pennsylvania where I was born and raised to the unique place in Maine called Downeast. My other column, Random Thoughts is literally about anything I am thinking about: life, politics, nature, etc. I have been to China numerous times, took a walk on the Great Wall and navigated the River Li. I have sailed, climbed and hiked in a number of places, and in 2010 I spent six days dog sledding the Yukon Territory. I published a collection of prose and poetry and I am currently working on a second collection while dabbling on a novel. Life has been full and somewhat adventurous, though finding Maine remains a high watermark in my life. R
Human Interest , Biography , Historical, Human Interest , Biography , Historical, Life Events , Book Reviews
Crime, Science fiction, How to
Content
By RJ Heller Verified| Bangor Daily News Verified There is an almost perfect concave-cupped cove in Machiasport that will listen to your thoughts. It has been here for eons. Its shore is covered in stones of all size, shape and color. There is no sand, only loose brightly polished and rounded rocks of granite, red rhyolite, quartzite and other rock reduced in size as primordial seconds roll into millennia. The waters of Machias Bay bless the beach with answers to questions, many not yet asked. Jasper Beach is special.
By RJ Heller Verified| Bangor Daily News Verified “When she thought of jumping the gun, she thought of the gun that killed their son. He removed his arm that had stayed around her until then. She was a little breathless as well. He chose not to look at her, but rather to look down at his hands, when he said, ‘The Land of Cockaigne.’”*******In his latest novel, Land of Cockaigne, Jeffrey Lewis approaches the dynamics of locals and those from out of state in the imagined Maine community of Sneed’s Harbor.
By RJ Heller Verified| Bangor Daily News Verified It is a memorable line from an iconic movie. A young Iowa corn farmer hears a ghostly voice whisper: “If you build it, he will come.”In the end, as another character talks about what people yearn for — memories of their past, their childhood; memories of place and of baseball. He then turns with a smile and says to the young farmer: “People most definitely will come, Ray.”With that, Down East Maine is on my mind. It is a place that offers much.
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Freelance
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