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Wilce’s Dream

Posted on October 18, 2020 by admin

At the persistence of his father, Cliff Skinner, his mother attempted a breathing technique to slow her labor enough to push her soon-to-be-born baby out at midnight. Clifford had heard that the first child of the new year would get … Continue reading →

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The Last Job That Piqued My Interest

Posted on April 18, 2020 by admin

I won’t kid you but there are downs to the ups of retiring in material comfort.  There is, for example, the tendency to see more frequent, more dire, health issues and if not with you than certainly with people you … Continue reading →

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A Good Friday Baptism

Posted on April 11, 2020 by admin

(This is entirely a true story!) It was a brisk day compared with recent days that early April.  The wind was blowing too, taking with it any warmth that lingered off a body.  Still it was a good Friday, a … Continue reading →

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$4 million! Really?

Posted on February 13, 2020 by admin

In my recent guest column (https://www.financialsamurai.com/life-goes-by-quick-money-thoughts-from-a-retiree-with-cancer/) I threw up, almost literally, a figure of $4 million as the amount needed to retire and then went on to apologize for doing so. Such a figure might seem about right for an … Continue reading →

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Life Goes By Quick: Money Thoughts From A Boomer Retiree With Cancer

Posted on January 19, 2020 by admin

(I was given the opportunity to write a guest column for my #1 favorite blog, FinancialSaumari.com. Below is what I wrote along with some comments that really made my day. Do take a look at that website and add your … Continue reading →

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The Mink of Ford Road

Posted on December 5, 2019 by admin

← Pic Of The Day #961 06880 Where Westport meets the world; This little anecdote appeared in Dan Woog’s 06880 column on December 5, 2019 (https://06880danwoog.com/2019/12/05/the-mink-of-ford-road/#comments) The Mink Of Ford Road Posted on December 5, 2019 | 3 Comments Alert “06880” reader — and avid fisherman … Continue reading →

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A Life on the Lake

Posted on October 25, 2019 by admin

(So I’ve not been writing much at all, but has this one stashed away and decided to post it just to keep engaged. It means something to me, though I’m not overly proud of it to be honest.) Sam pumped … Continue reading →

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Sliding Home

Posted on September 24, 2019 by admin

(I haven’t written much for months as I’ve been traveling with Pippa, the boys, friends, fishing, sailing and starting classes again. This one is a bit namby bamby but I want to get back into the spirit. I doubt most … Continue reading →

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Last Remains

Posted on January 23, 2019 by admin

Deano bent over the camping gear in the attic, brushing away the cobwebs and dried out flies, careful not to lift his head to the sloped roof with nails sticking down through any number of the shingles that had been … Continue reading →

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The Servant’s Entrance

Posted on January 2, 2019 by admin

Clifford Danforth couldn’t have cared less. There’d been the rumors for a while now; the President would be coming and it was all the town talked about. “Honestly?” asked the headline of an editorial in The Boothbay Register, the town’s … Continue reading →

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