Author: Sharon Mack

Sharon Mack is an award-winning journalist who retired to the hardscrabble but inspirational coast of Maine after 35 years at Maine's largest newspaper. Now she tells her own stories instead of the world's. She has been published in Claudius Speaks, Nebo: A Literary Journal and is working on a novel set on Halifax Island in Machias Bay.

Bag of Blue

Sharon Mack

There is a blue plastic WalMart bag caught in a branch of the maple tree in my daughter’s front yard. It has been there since April, four seasons ago. It’s amazingly high – far beyond the nest of squirrels and the honeycomb of holes the woodpecker has drilled. Way above Read more

Sharon Mack

Sharon Mack is an award-winning journalist who retired to the hardscrabble but inspirational coast of Maine after 35 years at Maine's largest newspaper. Now she tells her own stories instead of the world's. She has been published in Claudius Speaks, Nebo: A Literary Journal and is working on a novel set on Halifax Island in Machias Bay.