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    Think A Little

    … on christmas spirit in practice

    Setting: Early morning. The Elves on the Shelves – there are two of them – have come to Auntie Awesome Lisa’s* country (yes, I... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', christmas magic, magic, christmastime

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    Think A Little

    … more on that magic continuing

    “To all those who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here, age relives fond memories of the past, and here... Read More

    Tags: family, just ponderin', cozy, good vibes, connection, disney world

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    Think A Little

    … and the magic continues

    Oh hi! I’m a bit busy nana-ing in a corner of the world where it’s really fun to be Nana. I promise to check... Read More

    Tags: magic, memories, family, grandparents, just ponderin', childhood magic

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    Laugh A Little

    … on autumn falling and what the…

    Oh how I love this time of year. Crispness paddles out slowly in mid to late August, riding the waves of air in during... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', New England, fall in new england, fall in maine, maine blogger, the nearly perfect husband, photography

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    Think A Little

    … on a morning in maine

    It’s early… cool… humid. The gardens’ heady scents, joined by saltwater, are invisible joys cast from, it seems, all directions. I am not fooled.... Read More

    Tags: maine, just ponderin', gardening, coastal maine, maine blogger, maine writer, morning, slow morning, gardens

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    Think A Little

    … on pride-ing and falling again (dammit)

    So. This whole ‘pride goeth-ing before the fall’ thing is getting old. Allow me to amend my previous statement. This whole ‘pride goeth-ing before... Read More

    Tags: humor, just ponderin', midcoast maine, coastal maine

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    Think A Little

    … on hope and plants along a day

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    Tags: just ponderin', gardening, Maine gardens, gardens, maine

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    Think A Little

    … on an eclipse (and more) nearly missed

    That’s an eclipse right there. Oh, you can’t really tell – in that the sun is strutting its all powerful self – but the... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', magic, midcoast maine, eclipse, it's the little things, cozy, 2024 eclipse, serendipity, maine, photography

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    Think A Little

    … on cooking with granny

    This morning I was awake just as the sky was beginning to glow in the east. We’re having friends to dinner tonight so I... Read More

    Tags: mornings, old house, Christina Tosi, Crack Pie, family memories, cooking, kitchen, baking, maine, just ponderin'

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    Think A Little

    … on a translation of danish to dingle

    When I run the Danish word, ‘hygge’ (pronounced ‘hoo-gah’ or ‘hew-gah’), through my computer’s de facto translator, it decodes to ‘coziness’. In definitions, and... Read More

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    Think A Little

    … on phantom kid syndrome

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    Think A Little

    … on lessons in the sillies

    Light dancing on wind-rippled peaks… we Dingles refer to this as ‘sparkle water’. There is also ‘sparkle snow’, But this requires snow, and is... Read More

    Tags: sparkle water, lessons, childhood, musings, childhood memories, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', childhood magic, cozy

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Bathtub Mary

In Somerville, Massachusetts, where I spent the first five or six years of my life (it seems to be hotly debatable in my family), people often put statues of the Virgin Mary in their front yards. And she is ‘protected’ in a lovely arch of white.. which is often … and I am not kidding… a partially buried cast iron bathtub.

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