by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food
First published in The Franklin Journal There are so many diet options! Paleo. Atkins. Weight Watchers. Gluten-free. The list goes on without an end in sight. Each one has a marketing campaign to attract a particular consumer who will try it in an attempt to find the...
by Lillian Lake | | Angel Encounters, Spiritual
It is through simple moments we are refreshed.” I hadn’t been to this particular city for some time and was a bit apprehensive. I was in New York City to accept the WhyHunger 2012 Harry Chapin Self-Reliance award. As I prepared to disembark from the...
by Lillian Lake | | Caregiving, Food, Grief, Spiritual
First appeared in The Franklin Journal While relaxing this summery, Maine morning, I am enjoying a delicious, iced coffee, as I reflect on friends whose loved ones passed on last week. Thinking of the perfection of the coffee seems to be in direct contrast to my other...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Farms, Food
First printed in Franklin Journal Across America, country fairs and festivals are the happening thing and will lead us from summer, right through fall. It’s rather hard to believe it’s that time all ready. I’m sure for farmers, the time moves even more quickly....
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food, Spiritual
First appeared in The Franklin Journal The Red Barn” is a small restaurant at 455 Riverside Drive, Augusta, Maine. Making your way out of Augusta via ME-3 E, you may think you’ve gone too far just about the time you find the left turn onto Riverside. Drive down...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Spiritual
First published in Franklin Journal A full morning was spent here helping out Mother Nature. Here in Maine, we are in great need of rain. Where I sit in the Western Mountains, the rain that does come through, seems to mostly go above or below our locale. Until this...
by Lillian Lake | | Farms, Food
First Published in Franklin Journal I remember with fondness, picking strawberries with mom, out behind the Cannery in Farmington, Maine. As a little girl, everything seemed ginormous. Those fields bordering the Sandy River were no exception. They seemed endless and...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food
One of the best things about writing about food is visiting places where I get to eat and drink coffee. Recently, I visited Dovey’s Kitchen in Industry, Maine at the head of Clearwater Lake. It’s a version of a country mom and pop store. The owners, Phil and Dovey...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Spiritual
My facebook and twitter feed has been seeded with reflections on the Orlando shooting. There have been expressions of anger and hatred; excuses for each side’s justification and judgement; as well as calls for openness and shining love and light on that which...
