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Fond Memories of Killing Off The Hanson Brothers…

What do you mean most children don’t have Barney and the tele-tubbies on a satirical hit list?

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When the Torch is Passed Via an Apple Pie

Baking apple pie with my grandmother is a Thanksgiving tradition I will never forget.

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Built Maine Tough – The Women in my Life

I was born into a family of rugged pioneering individualists – and they were all women.

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Say What? My Oh-So French Teacher

Most people had a favorite teacher growing up. Mine was French and I loved her for her openly disdainful opinion of my peers.

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Wife Beater V. Baseball Bat – a Story from the Backwoods of Maine

Sometimes every day heroes come in the form of a stringy 20-something year old woman weilding a baseball bat.

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Camp Grenada Had Nothing on Ferry Beach

When I was ten years old I was given a penpal from one town over. The reason for this was simple. In the following year I would…

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When Going to Dive Pet Stores was a Form of Entertainment

When I was growing up one of my favorite things to do was to go to little mom and pop pet shops that were scattered…

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Never Ask for Directions to the Cracker Factory…

Sometimes having very loud and embarrassing friends can actually be pretty funny. Today I speak of a friend who once went to a flea market…

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Boy it must have Sucked Being an Openly Bi-Sexual Man in a Small Town in the 1980’s…

These days my brain has been kicking in and just throwing me completely with random flashbacks of seemingly nothing. Today it was a memory of…

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Mourning the Death of Microsoft Paint

It was a love story, a manage a trois between myself, a hookah-smoking caterpillar, and MS Paint.

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