Category Archives: Plus One

Each week I will be inviting a guest blogger to join me in sharing their story of living “unplugged.” Interested in being my +1? Submit a request with your idea! You don’t have to be a “writer” just passionate about your topic!

Life Paths: How Grief Motivated My Career

This guest blog is part of an ongoing series that will help showcase the different paths available to students after graduation (and in some cases, before graduation).   By: E.G. Moore My career started in the dark webs of a fading loss. My baby sister had died years ago, yet my grieving still hung on my heart like soggy […]

Life Paths: How I Became a School Custodian

This guest blog is part of an ongoing series that will help showcase the different paths available to students after graduation (and in some cases, before graduation). By: Emily Dort I remember sitting in my senior English class with the assignment of writing my college essay. Our career aspirations. I had this “great life” all planned out: Go […]

Life Paths: Not All High School Drop-Outs End Up Losers

This guest blog is part of an ongoing series that will help showcase the different paths available to students after graduation (and in some cases, before graduation). By Sarah Cottrell In 1996, during my junior year in high school, just as spring fever was hitting my small Maine town, I told my English teacher that I was dropping […]

Life Paths: Entering the work force after college graduation

This guest blog is the first of many in an ongoing series that will help showcase the different paths available to students after graduation (and in some cases, before graduation).  By Melanie Ann Thurlow Having completed my Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration Management two years ago at 23, I remembered why I first decided to […]

Why Maine went from being “home” to “Vacationland”

By Kelsey Halm Have you ever questioned your own sanity? I don’t do it frequently – but a couple of weeks ago my husband and I packed our entire lives into a 16′ moving truck and relocated 1200 miles South of Bangor  to Charleston, S.C. In fact, within the past 365 days, we’ve done 4 […]

Local yogi and business owner travels to Costa Rica

By Holly Twining There I was leaping over fear, traveling to Nosara, Costa Rica to scout out accommodations, quirky destinations and helpful locals for an upcoming adventure in February 2017. While not a fan of hot weather, surfing or spiders, there were times I wondered if this were the right decision, but really, those are […]

Lynn Plourde shares 5 favorite Christmas books

As a child, one of my favorite things about the holiday season was pulling out the Christmas books that had been tucked away in a closet all year. Now that I’m a mother, I’ve been able to recreate that tradition with my 6-year-old daughter, Lexi, who also looks forward to her seasonal stories. This year […]