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“Lost on a Mountain in Maine”
At the age of 10, I spent a handful of early mornings with my dad at the Fish & Game Club, alongside other local individuals, taking part in a Hunter’s Safety Course. Many more early mornings during that fall of 2002 were spent bundling up in cotton, wool, and fleece – greens and grays under a coating of orange – and leaving camp to walk across stiff gravel roads and through frosty clearings and thickets; I’ll never hear another crunch like the one my boots made when contacting the nearly frozen blades of grass and bushes. My hunting expeditions were never too intense, although bloody noses and cold toes sometimes…
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The Mustard Seed Bookstore – Bath, Maine
There’s Something About The Mustard Seed Bookstore Always trying to get as many errands done during the week as possible, as to ensure a more enjoyable and often carefree weekend, I recently found myself leaving the apartment to run errands on a Saturday. This perhaps had a lot to do with taking a vacation day the previous Wednesday, which threw an already busy week into a much more tightly scheduled timeline, leaving me little time and energy to get anything done after work. Anyway, this particular Saturday was cloudy, although warm, and after running said errands I couldn’t bring myself to spend the rest of the day cleaning or picking…
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The Little Dog Coffee Shop – Brunswick, Maine
There’s Something About The Little Dog Coffee Shop The following are observations from a recent visit to a coffee shop in which I have now spent a few mornings in. The Little Dog Coffee Shop is located in Brunswick, Maine on a bustling little street; there’s plenty of parking outside and room inside to socialize, read, or pass through when you’re on the go. The comforting hum of conversations coming from couches and small tables are interrupted at intervals by the hiss of an espresso machine and the grinding of a blender, which hold their places under colorful chalkboard menus and behind a counter full of bagels, brownies, biscotti and other versions of baked…