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Laura on Life
The Big Red Machines
The big red machines are at least somewhat better than mine because the loading and unloading is all done at chest level - no bending and twisting or lifting with your back.
Mar 19, 2010 - 12:30:13 AM
M Stevens-David
Discontented Americans
We no longer want the simple things in life. We want bigger cars, larger houses, more money. Two people live in houses that have four bedrooms, three baths, and formal and informal living rooms.
Mar 19, 2010 - 12:20:08 AM
M Stevens-David
Spring: A Poem by M. Stevens-David
The Main Spring is not the Maine Spring?
Mar 16, 2010 - 12:30:13 AM
Down the Road
Where the wild things is
Yeah, I know. That's terrible language in the title. But I didn't want to use the correct verb, "are," because it's already used in a book -- a book that is actually worth reading in contrast to this bit of wildlife rambling.
Mar 14, 2010 - 6:13:19 AM
M Stevens-David
Poison Ivy
In nineteen-ninety, my husband and I were living in the foothills of south, central Maine and being somewhat discontented with our current living arrangements we'd decided to build a log home and we began searching for an ideal spot on which to build.
Mar 14, 2010 - 4:45:29 AM
M Stevens-David
Poem: For My Family - Sept 11, 2001
The day was filled with dust and fear As I stumbled down the stairs. I heard prayers all around me And I joined my voice to theirs...
Mar 9, 2010 - 12:10:38 AM
Down the Road
How to walk -- or how not to
I am reading The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson, a fascinating book about not only how to walk -- well, actually, not so much that -- as about a lot of tales of walkers -- some the writer says are well known.
Mar 8, 2010 - 12:22:24 AM
M Stevens-David
The Tomato
I began a ritual that only "dirt in the blood" gardeners would recognize. I eyed each and every vast flower bed with a practiced and critical eye and began digging up, transplanting, dividing and eliminating plants that hadn't done well in a certain spot or hadn't lived up to expectation in one way or another or would simply look better in another place.
Mar 7, 2010 - 12:32:06 AM
M Stevens-David
I'll be there - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Mar 2, 2010 - 12:15:40 AM
Down the Road
Spring (trail) fever
As soon as the weather permits, Dolores and I are headed over to the Frye Mountain area to take a look at the Hogback Trail on the mountain of that same name.
Mar 1, 2010 - 1:31:24 AM
M Stevens-David
The Present
When we'd moved into our lovely, new home, we brought with us a small lawn tractor and after watching me mow the lawn for three and a half hours one bright sunny morning, my husband announced that it was taking me far too long to mow two acres.
Feb 28, 2010 - 4:32:58 AM
M Stevens-David
'I Wonder' - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
Third in a Series of 'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Feb 23, 2010 - 12:15:01 AM
M Stevens-David
Mr. Smith's Zoo
Mr. Smith was the head keeper of a very large zoo. He was very proud of his job and he was certain that his was the very best zoo in the whole wide world.
Feb 21, 2010 - 12:15:23 AM
M Stevens-David
'I Saw God Today' - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
Secondin a Series of 'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Feb 16, 2010 - 11:44:47 AM
J. G. Fabiano
I would have fired me my first year
I enjoy watching a new teacher's second year because they realize what the profession is and get better at it as the years pass. I also feel bad watching a first year teacher lose their job because I wonder how good they could be
Feb 15, 2010 - 12:10:30 AM
Down the Road
Goin' Green, not some other direction
What if a vote for Lynne Williams turns out to be a vote for Lynne Williams? How will I know unless I vote for Lynne Williams? And then how will I know my vote actually went toward Lynne Williams becoming our next governor?
Feb 14, 2010 - 12:15:08 AM
M Stevens-David
The Valentine Present
"He's never worried about Valentine's Day before in our twenty-odd years of marriage, I wonder what he's thinking about."
Feb 14, 2010 - 12:10:05 AM
M Stevens-David
'Columbia - The Seven' - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
First in a Series of 'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Feb 9, 2010 - 12:25:20 AM
Down the Road
January thaw -- what is it? Why can't it stay?
I remember one dark, bleak, January night when we lived over in western Maine, hearing the water drip off the roof. This was January thaw, all right, but it was still a dark and scary night.
Feb 8, 2010 - 12:10:58 AM
M Stevens-David
Diary of Death
I am no longer aware of time or anything else except what is on my television screen. I hear and see that the second tower has begun to lean ominously and ABC News is stating that the second tower is going to fall too! Suddenly, the air is filled with news flashes and a new word is beginning to emerge. Terrorists!
Feb 7, 2010 - 12:15:57 AM
Down the Road
Trains don't go 'choo choo' no mo
According to Wikipedia, "The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad ran from Burnham Junction in on the Maine Central Railroad to the small seaport of Belfast. It was originally leased by the Maine Central as the Belfast Branch.
Jan 31, 2010 - 1:13:18 AM
M Stevens-David
Dippy Doodle Duck
Mama Duck was a very good mother and she never left her nest. Every now and then she'd lift her large, fluffy bottom a little and look at the big egg.
Jan 31, 2010 - 12:15:22 AM
M Stevens-David
Vengeance is Mine Pt 4
Sometimes, when all of her other patients were sound asleep, she'd slip into Mrs. Stanton's room and stand quietly by the door and look at her. There was something acutely familiar about the way the woman's face looked when in repose and it disturbed Mary Elizabeth that she couldn't figure out what it was that drew her to that particular patient.
Jan 30, 2010 - 12:33:36 AM
M Stevens-David
Vengeance is Mine Pt. 3
"Oh, Mary, Mother of God, what are we going to do with her?" Hearing the sadness in her voice, the young Nun reached down and picked up the child. She turned and thrust the baby into the Mother Superior's arms. "I don't know about you but, God wants us to keep her or she wouldn't be here." she said. "And from what I heard, aren't you this child's aunt?"
Jan 29, 2010 - 12:25:39 AM
M Stevens-David
Vengeance is Mine Pt. 2
As she felt the size of the fetus, she felt sick to her stomach. "She's not six and a half months gone," she thought to herself, "She's more likely closer to eight months along, if she's a day." The Nun looked up and her eyes met Mother Superiors.
Jan 28, 2010 - 12:10:37 AM
M Stevens-David
Vengeance is Mine Pt.1
By ten o'clock that morning, the town was abuzz with the news. The largely Catholic population couldn't believe their ears. Dead babies found out at the old Nunnery! That was unbelievable! It was like saying that a spaceship had landed on Main Street in Fort Kent and the aliens were handing out lollipops!
Jan 27, 2010 - 12:20:54 AM
J. G. Fabiano
After a lifetime of chasing fitness, how come I'm overweight and out of breath
Why would we even think that a body that has lasted over a half a century would be able to keep up with a mind that refuses to grow up?
Jan 26, 2010 - 12:30:11 AM
Down the Road
Move over, deer
In case you're wondering and aren't close up and personal with the deer waiting in the woods near your house for some of that molasses-dipped grain, of course deer talk to you -- if you're listening carefully.
Jan 26, 2010 - 12:10:37 AM
M Stevens-David
Mr. Bunners & the Snowman
Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a lot of jibber, jabbering in the air above him. He jumped up and hopped out of his hiding place just in time to see his two friends, Bubber and Flubber Crow as they flew away into the cool fall air.
Jan 25, 2010 - 12:15:45 AM
M Stevens-David
The Maine Pine Tree
The little tree didn't really know how he had come to be, he just was. He looked all around him and all he could see was tall, green grass for miles and miles. Why, he really wasn't as tall as the grass and he only had three small branches growing on his trunk.
Jan 21, 2010 - 12:43:45 AM
Down the Road
Called by God -- send money
This week we received a "prayer letter" from an acquaintance. The bottom line was, in my ever-so-accurate rendition of the letter, "God called me to this ministry. Send me money so I can do it full-time."
Jan 20, 2010 - 12:33:25 AM
J. G. Fabiano
The future of public education should take the advice of the past
I was surprised by how the positive comments came from other teachers and young parents while the negative comments came from older individuals who no longer had children in the public schools.
Jan 11, 2010 - 12:10:08 AM
Down the Road
Watch that ice! Wish I could still listen to it
I first moved to Maine in 1965 and heard during those cold winter nights the booming of the ice out on Songo Pond. It was so cold the ice pushed against itself and snapped, sounding like rifle shots. We now live a quarter mile from Lower Patten Pond. Here I've never heard the ice snap nor boom at night.
Jan 10, 2010 - 12:18:52 AM
M Stevens-David
To Those I Love: A Poem by M. Stevens-David
I wrote that poem for an 18 year-old girl who had gone into her backyard to take the clothes off her mother's clothesline and a hunter mistook her for a deer and he killed her. So sad. I wrote the poem but never gave it to her parents because I didn't know them. Martha
Jan 10, 2010 - 12:14:42 AM
Features
Gothic Fiction: An Analysis Pt. 3
Gothic fiction, though the original formal genre has faded into the undercurrent of history, survives in other forms and becomes a vital part of modern literature and culture. Its unparalleled insight into the pain, sorrow and desire of human and its authentic record of the growth and setbacks in modern history have made itself a highly stylized seer among all genres of literature and a mirror for us to embrace our inner world with introspection.
Jan 3, 2010 - 12:20:54 AM
Down the Road
The miracle of getting your story there
I went through about four laptops a year, because they didn't like having coffee or Italian sandwich oil spilled or dripped into them. The paper gave me another one each time one ingested too much coffee or veggie oil and had the leaked-into one repaired.
Jan 3, 2010 - 12:10:56 AM
Features
Gothic Fiction: An Analysis Pt. 2
Such a sharp downfall is a highly personified process of the collapse of an imbalanced psyche. Here, again, Gothic fiction serves as an asylum of this non-mainstream observation which offers a forum for social criticism and later inspires great works like Notre Dame de Paris of other genres
Jan 2, 2010 - 12:20:09 AM
M Stevens-David
The Cardiologist
When we related this story to our friends and relatives, nobody believed us at first, but when we told them that it was the absolute truth, everyone was incredulous! This couldn't have happened, especially at a very fine hospital in a very excellent doctor's office in Lewiston, Maine. But it did, it really did! And oh yes, the only thing I changed in the story was the doctor's name.
Jan 1, 2010 - 12:20:09 AM
Features
Gothic Fiction: An Analysis
This renewed tide of religion with the attempt to convert more people to Christianity saved a number of people from their mental and moral damnation, through the formidable efforts of John Wesley and his fellow Methodists.
Jan 1, 2010 - 12:14:18 AM
M Stevens-David
The Christmas Pie
I admired his chef-manship and waited for him to be seated before cutting into my slice. He picked up his fork with a look of a man who has waited for something for a very long time and cut off a piece.
Dec 31, 2009 - 12:14:26 AM
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