Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

The Gulf of Maine ecosystem is huge and it's very unique. It goes all the way from around Cape Cod up to the Bay of Fundy and then out to George's Bank. And within that, we have deep basins. We have areas of shallow rocky water that are in the middle of the Gulf of Maine.

I think children are really hungry to know more about the lives of their parents. I know it's important to you because it takes you away from me, but I don't know what it is. So when a parent says this was something I could have left out today or this is how I'm feeling, it really sets the conversation to say, we can talk about things.

It is interesting that you describe kind of this intellectual and also physical. I think that we often tend to think of ourselves as going in one direction or another. But more and more lately people recognize, well, you actually can be more than one thing and you probably will be more than one thing over the course of your lifetime.