In Annmarie’s World | Annmarie Kelly

2017 WAZE Maze to Maine

Joseph and I did pretty good packing this morning. We left around 9am and stopped at WAWA for some tea and sandwiches. We figured we wouldn’t stop for breakfast so we could get to Salem early enough to […]

Maine’17 – It’s Almost Time!

We leave for vacation on Thursday. However, my mind left about ten days ago. That’s right! I’ve been noticing my mind meandering around some of my favorite Mt. Desert haunts: the Otter Cliffs, Cadillac Mountain, the main drag […]

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Are you an Elvis Fan?

This past week was the 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley – or was it? You might remember that my sweetie, Joseph, is a huge Elvis Presley fan. In fact, last weekend we were in North […]

Will Gettysburg Fix My Writer’s Block?

Writer’s Block – the curse of anyone who writes anything anytime. And I got it. I really thought that, since I wrote the first draft of Five-Year Marriage™ a long time ago, this would be easy. Well, writing […]

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Anemone Caves

Today started as a lazy day. I finally got to call my childhood girlfriend, Karol. The reception is so bad up here but, finally, I had a decent phone connection. I don’t usually make calls up here, so […]

A Walk in the Park

A lazy Sunday morning…one of my favorite things. Tonight we’re having dinner with cottage owner, Ollie, and I’m looking forward to it. Joseph and I didn’t want to do any strenuous hiking, but we wanted to do something […]

My Schoodic Treat

About fifteen years ago, for five years, Joseph and I rented a cottage on the Schoodic Peninsula. It’s about an hour north of Mt. Desert Island but it includes one of the outlier sections of Acadia National Park. […]

In Maine, Restarting the Book

Today I’m sitting in the living room of Windward Cottage#5 in Town Hill. I know this is vacation, but a lot happened recently about The Five-Year Marriage™ book, so I took the original manuscript (which I copyrighted in […]

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Am I a Mainer??

Something pretty neat happened as Joseph and I wrapped up today’s hike on the Eagle Lake carriage trail. It was a very cool ending to a full and good day! But first, we stopped at the Post Office […]

Windward Cottages

Joseph and I meandered up the coast from Portland. We usually make a stop at the tiny lobster shack called Reds Eats in Wiscasset. But the line is usually really long (about an hour’s wait) and we usually […]