Category: Blog
Any article I post that doesn’t exclusively belong to another category.
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Yes, Sardines for Breakfast
Make sure you brush, floss, and rinse well after this one; nobody wants sardine breath. Earlier this year I posted about my Spicy Oatmeal breakfast, which I’m sure produced a few sidelong glances among people who dared read about it. However, I recently had some blood test results that have prompted my doctors to suggest…
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My Favorite Photos of 2025
Specifically, my favorite photos that I took and uploaded to this blog in 2025. I subscribe to the The Atlantic (no surprises there) and I really enjoy their posts that simply feature photos taken that week or year that are impactful in some way. They recently released their “best photos of 2025” featuring the most…
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Trip to Bangor and Twenty-One Pilots
Back in September, our youngest son Braden (the grave looking young man in the Levi’s hoodie) turned 14 years old. He and his older brother Marcus have always been huge Twenty-One Pilot’s fans. Our gift to him was tickets to the Twenty-One Pilots Clancy Tour concert in Bangor for both of them and Marcus’ fiancé.…
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Five-Minute Photo Shoot
Just ran out the door with the dog and my camera and took photos until my hands got cold and I decided we should go back inside.
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Dueling Citizenships
In the march towards national “purity”, at least one Republican is introducing a bill that would force millions of Americans to give up their long-held rights and freedoms in other countries or face alienation and total upheaval in America. First, the author of bill S.3283, Republican Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, and the fascist-edging ideals he…
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The Trees are Frosty, Get the Drone
As the temperature begins to drop (usually 20° Fahrenheit and below) Kim begins to take Jeannie for quick morning snowshoe walks through trails in the back woods. Besides the river bed in the summer and fall months, the snowy trails behind our house are Kim’s favorite place to be. The cold winter air provides relief…
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Barred Owl
Kim and I have been hearing this Barred Owl (or one just like it) for years, and I finally spotted him today. He wasn’t 500 feet from our house, just behind us in the trees. It sat there calmly as Jeannie and I made our way through the trail by our home (Jeannie’s favorite place…
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AOC Interview Part 2: Inclusive Communities to Fight Hunger
…we all live in community together. So we do have to work with people who have differing opinions and ideas. How do we do that in a way that is productive in this climate? That’s a really tricky thing to do. — Mikaela Henninger, AOC Co-Founder I sat down with Mikaela Henninger, Melanie Tompkins, and…
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40 Thieves Live Recording Session
It’s not every day I get invited to a private live recording session. I hadn’t even heard of Jackson, Maine, before I was invited to attend the special live recording session of 40 Thieves. Travis Cyr, who hails from good ole’ Van Buren like I do, has been performing all over the state and beyond…
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Aroostook Organizers for Change is Building Resistance in Community
I sat down with Mikaela Henninger, Melanie Tompkins, and Janel Underwood-Charette, co-founders of the Aroostook Organizers for Change to talk about the beginnings of AOC and their goals for the future.
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