Tag: coming of age

• Finding Peter

  [Lenny is on the left. Peter is happy to be in Pennsylvania] It was here in the Adirondack Mountains that I walked up to the wall of a ranger cabin.  It was a far off December night, when my heart and body were young.  I had a flashlight in my shaking hand, and read by…

  patrickjegan

  June 30, 2015

  Blogging, Childhood, Friendship, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  bike trips, coming of age, finding lost friends, high school, owego ny, PA, teenage years

• Two-Tree Island (How Do I Live Without You?)

  The physical geography of the place can be hard to describe.  One has to see it from the air…from the height of a soaring hawk or eagle, or, better yet, from the seat of a kayak or canoe.  But one can get lost in the words…just as easily as one can get lost in the…

  patrickjegan

  November 5, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, Family, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Mountains and Memories, Nature, North Country Life, Short Fiction

  Adirondacks, campfires, coming of age, death, eskers, grand children, Great Camps, growing old together, growing up, islands, lakes, north country, Sagamore, swimming, Topridge, White Pine Camp