WEN takes a look at the broader picture with lifestyle, book reviews, and travel features.
Finding Your Peace: A Maine Guide to Holiday Self-Care By Nancy Dorrans The holiday season in Maine is nothing short of magical. The scent of pine needles… The soft blanket of snow... Read more
Book Short The NamesBy Florence Knapp By Stephanie Miller “The Names” by Florence Knapp asks the question: Can a name change the course of a life? I’ve long been fascinated with... Read more
Anti-Trump Administration Protests Keep Growing in Portland By Nancy English “Resist,” reads the black flag flying in the wind on a street corner by Lincoln Park, at a vigil held on Thursday... Read more
By Colin Monahan Portlanders have every reason to be proud of their Forest City (and Bostonians have every right to be jealous): a postcard-perfect New England vacationland with a working wa... Read more
This is the first of a magical realism trilogy of early 20th Century rural Norway emerging from the grip of old myths and the farming people’s laconic acceptance of deadly, harsh winters in... Read more
Book Short Facing the MountainAn Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in WW2 By Stephanie Miller Some immigrant integration stories in the United States make painful reading, and th... Read more
Book Short Two novels that embrace place By Stephanie Miller We love many novels for character. Others for pacing. Some capture us with the power of a unique story — or an old story newly to... Read more
Book Short The Comfort Reading List By Stephanie Miller In the past month, I’ve re-read a number of books that I already love, perhaps to insert a bit of controlled outcome into my life duri... Read more
Book Short ‘The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek‘By Kim Michele Richardson By Stephanie Miller There really were blue-skinned people in Kentucky who carried a rare genetic conditi... Read more
Book Short About Graceby Anthony Doerr By Stephanie Miller David Winkler dreams the future. While sometimes happy, often the dreams foretell death and destruction and they leave an indelible... Read more
