Yesterday morning, just after midnight, marked the earliest spring equinox since 1896. It has something to do with Pope Gregory XIII coming up with a somewhat convoluted formula about 500 years ago to make up for the .24 extra day in each regular calendar year. So today we are clearly entering spring in Maine. This […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
I can still remember the first time someone told me that I was fat. I was only 10 years old and was riding my bike as I often did in the summer. A boy, perhaps a year or too older than I, felt the need to offer his opinion regarding my size. I didn’t really […]
I wanted a jeep for as long as I can remember. I think my infatuation started to blossom one summer nearly 50 years ago when we were visiting our relatives in far Northern Minnesota. One of my older cousins had acquired an old Willys jeep. There was certainly nothing fancy about his first vehicle, but […]