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    Think A Little

    … on shades of blue

    The light streams in The world anew In dawning, dulcet Shades of blue. The snowflakes fly As snowflakes do In Maine, if not In... Read More

    Tags: maine, poem, poetry, humor, photography, joy, secrets to happiness, southport maine, maine winter, coastal Maine winter

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    Laugh A Little

    … on feelin’ drift-y

    Down by the dock in Maine, for more than a decade, has been this piece of driftwood. It sits on this mossy outcropping of... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, family, maine, photography, Southport, secrets to happiness, open heart, open mind, Southport Island

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    Think A Little

    … on scheduling nothing

    Years ago, when JoHn and I were both still working bazillion hour weeks and juggling our careers with two, then three kids, we would schedule days... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, comedy, humor, secrets to happiness, doing nothing, saying no, saying no to invitations

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    Laugh A Little

    … on craze and contemplation; last leaving the nest

    My life has been reduced to piles. And boxes. And more piles. And a list (or seven). This month, Number One Son Sam will... Read More

    Tags: musings, empty nest, humor, college graduation, secrets to happiness, high school graduation, last to leave home, youngest leaving home

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an easter challenge accepted

    Every Easter Sunday morning since First Born Mac was puny (pew-knee), there has been a rather loud and massive hunt for candy. The Easter... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, comedy, kids, humor, Easter, secrets to happiness, Healthy Easter

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    Think A Little

    … on the wait for a window

    When we bought the house in Maine, more than a decade ago, and set to work on renovating it, one of the places we... Read More

    Tags: The Inn and gardens, musings, comedic writing, everyday life, maine, comedy, humor, secrets to happiness

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a starry starry morn

    I’ve always been a sunrise gal. Don’t get me wrong, sunsets are beautiful. But that soft pink glow, piercing my bedroom window before the break... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, secrets to happiness, Maine Island, Maine Sunrise, Sunrise in Maine

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    Laugh A Little

    … on faith, or fate, or what the fuh

    I am big on faith. Not so much the religious kind, and most of my religious friends bear with me on this. Which is... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, humor, joy, secrets to happiness

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    Laugh A Little

    … on soccer dreams, and watershed moments

    Whew. A busy few days, somewhat sad too. So welcome to a silly little post on the light and air-y topic of life’s watershed moments.... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, sports, comedy, soccer, humor, secrets to happiness, watershed moments

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    Think A Little

    … on finding joy, somehow

    The other day, the day after Thanksgiving, instead of getting up super early and pushing the glowing button on the coffee maker, puttering around,... Read More

    Tags: musings, soccer, secrets to happiness, dunkin donuts

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    Laugh A Little

    on fifty (?!)

    Fifty? Eh…. Fifty shmifty It’s not as if-ty I’m so old I can’t be nifty Sure my joints Might be more stiff-ty My penmanship... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, comedy, poem, poetry, humor, secrets to happiness, turning 50, turning fifty

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    Laugh A Little

    … on morning walk(abouts)

    The past few days has been pretty cool in that our friend Andrea is here from Australia.  So our days have been filled with... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, comedy, photography, joy, Dunstable, secrets to happiness, foliage

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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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