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    Think A Little

    … on christmastime uncurated

    I love old radiators. When we bought The Inn*, there was a lot of broken… floors… windows… ceilings… I don’t mean, ‘sort of not... Read More

    Tags: christmas magic, maine blogger, maine christmas, maine photographer, maine writer, christmastime, christmas season, meaning of christmas, just ponderin'

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    Think A Little

    … on warm and welcomed distractions

    I’d been working on a writing piece on and off all day yesterday, and it was kicking my butt big time. No idea why,... Read More

    Tags: photography, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, maine gardening, maine writer, maine life, cozy blog, maine, autumn

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    Think A Little

    … on connecting dots (backward)

    I am a sucker for a good graduation speech. Love ’em. Some of my faves are Conan O’Brian’s to Dartmouth in 2011, Dr. Rick... Read More

    Tags: secrets to happiness, just ponderin', serious childhood illness, learning differences, steve jobs stanford, college graduation speeches, connecting the dots backward, phoenix process

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    Think A Little

    … on a delayed gift, acorn to oak

    There’s a baby oak tree in the potting room sink. Five years ago, on an August afternoon in North Carolina, I sat with JoHn... Read More

    Tags: family, empty nest, college graduation, parenting, just ponderin', Elon University, class of 2020, class of 2020 plus one, covid college graduation, rites of passage

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    Think A Little

    … on ten core values for people-ing

    Last week, I had lunch with a very close and very old – like, not old but long-time – friend. Along the hours (yep!), and... Read More

    Tags: musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', we're all in this together, holding the center, holding my center, staying centered

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    Think A Little

    … on blooming and resting (and budding)

    Some – not all – just some crabapple trees work so hard blooming up a storm one year, they need a longer-than-twelve-month break before... Read More

    Tags: malus, musings, photography, just ponderin', gardening, gardening in Maine, garden photography, crabapple tree

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    Laugh A Little

    … on gardening in and out of a pandemic

    May in Maine finds the gardens still at their beginnings. The forsythia still have not quite gone from sunny yellows to greens and the... Read More

    Tags: spring in maine, maine blogger, maine photographer, musings, gardens, just ponderin', spring, gardening, Maine gardens

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    Think A Little

    … on this mother’s day morning

    It’s early when I step onto the porch. The air is silent and still, infused with the notion of leftover moonlight. The first bird... Read More

    Tags: maine blogger, maine photographer, morning, musings, mother's day, secrets to happiness, just ponderin'

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    Think A Little

    … on an overwhelmingly good day

    I am weepy today, right now actually. It is that weepy that comes when grace, or gratitude, or wonder, executes a perfect blindside tackle,... Read More

    Tags: musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin'

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    Think A Little

    … on breakfast sounds (poem)

    Breakfast Sounds They are ambient… the people Chairs pulled out, scooched in Napkins unfolded onto laps Babes reaching for everything Shiny spoons offered As distractions,... Read More

    Tags: upright bass, musings, poetry, photography, jazz, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, maine writer, breakfast sounds

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    Think A Little

    … on ambient people

    A few weeks ago, I ran across an internet meme/comic that went something like this: A woman bursts into a room, clearly ecstatic, and... Read More

    Tags: spring peepers, musings, just ponderin', COVID-19, isolation, breakfast sounds, favorite sounds

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    Think A Little

    … on serendhoppity

    A few weeks ago, I got a call from a very important Niece who happens to be the Mom of two very important Practice... Read More

    Tags: maine photographer, what's important, easter bunny, easter candy hunting, musings, family, Easter, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', maine blogger

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The Freakin’ Egg Thing

That plastic egg container that comes with every refrigerator. It requires far more anal retentive attention than I have. It makes me crazy because I really don’t know how to only have the super organized egg thing instead of the cardboard egg container because I will never have one dozen eggs and use every single one before I buy more eggs. Once I bought another freakin’ egg thing to solve this problem but it was still an issue so I finally destroyed them.

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