Words by Alexander (Sandy) Brook from “I Begin Through the Grass.”

Mark Twain penned the quote: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities.”

A recent headline caught my attention as to what happens when lobsters “come ashore."

Keeping the wife happy.

In a New York City classroom one year after 9-11, students composed a poem.

Why “Here Comes the Sun” became their favorite song.

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

Or, did anyone get eaten by the black bear roaming through my ‘hood, and other relevant questions.

Built more than 100 years ago at Kennebunk Beach, this “chapel in the pines” is a treasured sanctuary for locals and tourists. (With cool music, too.)

We can’t travel out of the country these days but we can live vicariously. This article ran several months ago in TOURIST & TOWN, the best little newspaper in southern Maine. I’m sharing it with you and hoping it takes you to the island of Malta where my friend and Kennebunk caterer, Peggy Liversidge, experienced the trip of a lifetime.