Tag: Grievances
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Queues and Lines
Buckle up. We’re headed to McDonalds with more beef than we might leave with. TL;DR I feel that Americans might do well to adopt the term queuing to help normalize a sense of community and cooperation instead of the usual “destined to conquer” approach we take to nearly everything in life — including the McDonalds…
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The Back to the Future Effect
My family and I moved from Canada to Van Buren, Maine, in 1988. I pretty much grew up there. I lived there until I moved to Caribou (about 20 minutes south) in 2002, with the exception of some brief attempts at college after graduating high school in 1998. I’ve lived in Caribou ever since. The…
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How NOT to Apply Cabin Chinking
We’re having quite a bit of work done to our cabin this year, including blasting off the old stain (which was really more like brown paint), replacing the old caulking (tee-hee!), and re-staining the cabin. The first step, the blasting of the cabin with abrasive media (glass and sand) to remove the old stain, went…
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