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Monthly Archives: September 2012
I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
In the course of my life, I’ve had my fair share of mental-health “vicissitudes,” let’s call them. I’ve never been medicated for any of them, although at one point a psychiatrist strongly urged me to go on lithium. At another … Continue reading
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Oh how time flies with crystal clear eyes
Brendan is out of town tonight. We’re almost never apart, and we prefer it that way, to put it mildly. But whenever one of us goes off without the other, I feel a resurgence of some old part of myself, … Continue reading
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The farmer is the man who feeds us all
On our way here from Portland yesterday for the weekend, we stopped at the Earle Family Farm on the main road just before the turnoff. We bought a pound or two each of their just-picked late-summer tomatoes and squashes and … Continue reading
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I’d rather be in some dark holler where the sun don’t ever shine
When we woke up yesterday morning, there was a chill in the air. The light was simultaneously more muted and more intense than the frank hot brightness of a summer morning, and the air was full of a very familiar, … Continue reading
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I’ve laid around and I’ve played around this old town too long, summer’s almost gone
Yesterday, when they announced that our flight to Boston was delayed, Brendan and I headed straight for the tequila and taco place across from our gate. We ordered “skinny” margaritas – tequila and lime juice and simple syrup, but with … Continue reading
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