Mary K. Otto, Author at Valley News

Column: A source of solace in National Poetry Month

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsApril 19, 2025

I Go Down to the Shore

Column: Returning home from a summer in Maine

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsSeptember 13, 2024

Column: The burning world and cares close to home

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsMarch 15, 2024

Column: Once more to Maine and a familiar daily life

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsOctober 9, 2023

Column: The shadow of age

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsAugust 21, 2023August 4, 2025

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Column: What have you done since January 1st?

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsFebruary 27, 2023

Buildings in the Manhattan skyline in New York on June 17, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Victor J. Blue.

Column: Reconnecting to make up for lost time

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsNovember 12, 2022

FILE - In this file photo dated, Oct. 3, 1996. Wislawa Szymborska, the 73 year-old Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in literature, during an interview with The Associated Press in the southern mountain resort of Zakopane. Szymborska died Feb. 1, 2012 of lung cancer at 88, her will was opened Wednesday, Feb. 29 in Krakow and its contents described by her personal secretary, Michal Rusinek, at a news conference. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

Column: Gathering under one small star

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsDecember 11, 2021

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Column: Migrating toward a new American food story

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsNovember 20, 2021

Fall leaves hang on a tree on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 in East Montpelier, Vt. Fall foliage is still abundant in Vermont. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Column: Autumn’s harvest of memories

by Mary K. Otto For the Valley NewsOctober 8, 2021