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    Think A Little

    … on april showers’ superpowers

    Yesterday morning, I woke up to a world quenched from gentle overnight rains. This was a nice reprieve from the wind-whipped shards of water... Read More

    Tags: reconnecting, musings, maine, just ponderin', spring, midcoast maine, human connection

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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 gatherings (floral and faunal)

    This morning I went outside to perform my very first garden chore of the season. I dug into the Potting-slash-Writing Room tool drawer, selecting... Read More

    Tags: quarantine, covid, post quarantine, musings, maine, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', spring, maine blogger, maine photographer, hellebore

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    Think A Little

    … on the coming spring

    The timing of spring is relative in midcoast Maine. While others anticipate the days that fall in and around the twenty-first of March, we... Read More

    Tags: quarantine, gardens, spring garden clean up, photography, just ponderin', spring, gardening, Maine gardens, maine blogger, maine photographer, maine writer, COVID-19, musings

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    Cry A Little

    … on an awakening

    There is something wondrously cool about Wait. Just to be all kinds of honest and authentic, that – up there ^ –  is not... Read More

    Tags: grief, just ponderin', southport maine, spring, midcoast maine, spring in maine, Boothbay Harbor, caregiving, processing grief, empty nest, secrets to happiness

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    Think A Little

    … on spring’s reminder

      This spring morning I awoke to the conversations of a thousand winged beings.  And as I yawned and stretched I realized… This was... Read More

    Tags: musings, poetry, just pondering, spring

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Spanky Baby Jesus

An expletive you can utter any time you need an expletive or you want to express surprise (like, “Jesus H. Christ” or “Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick”). It came about when I misread my friend Katherine’s description of her toilet paper nativity scene, where she noted her ‘sparkly baby Jesus’. Sad. True.

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