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    Think A Little

    … on landslides and new landscapes

    There’s this song that’s been following me around for about a year, maybe a little more. Creepily showing up at the oddest times, sometimes... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, photography, secrets to happiness

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    Cry A Little

    … on tucking in a house

    It occurred to me yesterday, alone in the house I have mockingly referred to as ‘The Disposable Shack’… After the family packed itself into... Read More

    Tags: photography, joy, moving, prose, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on drop offs (and drop outs) and pick ups

    I’m not sure if that magnet, which sits above Gronk’s* gas tank filler upper door, is about Marshal Dillon Dingle, or about me. I... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, humor, secrets to happiness

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    Laugh A Little

    … on nicknames lived up to

    The Disposable Shack. Disposed. Well, not quite. But now I am thinking it was so unfair to refer to this wonderful home as the... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, family, empty nest, joy, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', selling the family home, home

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    Laugh A Little

    … on making sense of self

    So… there’s this dress. I can’t tell you much about it because it’s a secret. Not being a member of the Wedding Tradeworkers Union,... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, secrets to happiness, wedding

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    Think A Little

    … on putting your work ‘out there’

    It’s totally freaky. Cars are going by more slowly and I swear they can see me swimming in my fishbowl. Yesterday, a ‘for sale’... Read More

    Tags: selling the family home, home selling, musings, humor, secrets to happiness

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    Think A Little

    … on risk and reward

    Yesterday morning I was hanging out in the hotel, getting some work done when I heard from Number One Son Sam, who was practicing... Read More

    Tags: photography, joy, New Orleans, Cafe du Monde, French Quarter, musings, humor

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    Think A Little

    … on pondering along with an understudy

    Meet The Understudy – the at-the-ready stand in for the Sam’s now-crunched automotive star (unable to go on). This is her, prior to meeting her... Read More

    Tags: empty nest, humor, photography, New Orleans, NoLA, selling the family home, wedding planning stress, musings

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    Think A Little

    … on dawn

    We live on a ball that weights 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – thirteen septillion, one hundred seventy sextillion – pounds… and yet floats in space. When it turns just so,... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, maine, photography, joy, Sunrise in Maine, sunrise

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    Think A Little

    … on a good morning

    The little beach on the island is quiet in the early mornings and late afternoons, even in summer. But in the midst of the... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, maine, photography, spring in maine

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    Think A Little

    … on an awakening

    There are so many firsts this year, now that Self Proclaimed Perfect Boy, Gabe has headed off to college. Some I anticipated, but others... Read More

    Tags: boothbay, spring in maine, musings, maine, humor, photography, Southport

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    Cry A Little

    … on knowing, and *knowing*

    Until about twenty minutes ago, I couldn’t look. Totally true. It’s been nearly a week since Sam’s accident down in New Orleans, and all... Read More

    Tags: musings, family, secrets to happiness

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The Inn

Our house in Maine. It is not an inn anymore (hence the “a private residence” on the sign out front) but it was, in the early 1900s.

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