Category: North Country Life

• Sunday Rock

  It was raining as I drove along the western edge of the Adirondack Park recently.  It was around the time when my thoughts turned to how much weight the Yankee pitcher, C. C. Sabathia, had lost during the off-season.  Or, perhaps I was reflecting on Colbert replacing Letterman on the Late Show.  More than likely, however,…

  patrickjegan

  May 1, 2014

  Everyday Events, Holding onto the Past, Memories, Mountains and Memories, North Country Life, Travels

  Adirondacks, Colton NY, glacial erratic, Ice Ages, lakes, loggers, miners, mountains, native americans, pioneers, Sunday Rock, trails, woodsmen

• A Missing Image But Still A Memory

    The photographic frame, measuring 3″x5″ sat on the flat surface of the headstone. It’s a small quiet Catholic cemetery on the edges of the village of Saranac Lake, New York.  The winter snow was gone but no grass or Spring flowers had the courage, or time, to begin their life again.  Cemeteries are full…

  patrickjegan

  April 20, 2014

  Alternate Endings, Everyday Events, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, North Country Life

  cemeteries, cemetery night lights, Epitaphs, memory photos, saranac lake, Tombstones

• The Confessional: A Short Story

  An elaborate carved oak confessional sat in a corner of a large and beautiful church. It was the Church of Our Lady of the World in Montreal, the center of Catholic French Canada. There were several confessionals in this cavernous house of worship.  The congregation, holding onto the older ways of the Roman Church, still…

  patrickjegan

  March 24, 2014

  Alternate Endings, North Country Life, Real and Unreal Adventures, Short Fiction

  churches in Montreal, confessionals, confessions, listening devices, love, Montreal, pretty woman in church, priests, rue saint Catherine, short fiction, sinners, Vermont border, would-be stalkers

• A Room With a View

  Everyone likes a room with a view.  Otherwise, why do we need windows?  Does anyone want to look out over the Fresh Kills Land on Staten Island, the Gowanus Canal or the latest toxic runoff pond from some mine in northern Canada?  No, we don’t.  And, I believe I can speak for most of us,…

  patrickjegan

  March 23, 2014

  Everyday Events, North Country Life, Things of Bauty

  adirondack winters, rooms with a view, seasons in the north country, snow, winter