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The Olive Tree

GUEST POST by TOM SANTULLI The olive tree outside my door and I met in a nursery  eleven years ago.  She was seven inches tall, in a one-gallon pot. Since then, she’s outgrown pots, and lived in a garden plot for a few years. Now, [...]

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Home Alone For the Holidays

The holiday season is upon us.  Thanksgiving is next week, soon to be followed by Christmas and Hanukkah where images of happy extended families are portrayed in TV commercials and Hallmark specials.  But if you’re among all those older women and men who live alone, who don’t have a family to celebrate with, or who recently lost a partner, [...]

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Snow, Deb Haaland, Xmas Memories & More!

SNOW! My city of Portland, Maine was on track to receive 6” of snow but we got 17!” This morning I took one look at my buried car and went back inside. Once it warms up,  I will tackle all the snow covering it.  My heart goes out to all the unhoused in this bitter weather. I learned of two unhoused who died this week.  It makes my heart [...]

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A Very COVID Christmas

GUEST POST By JANET WEIL   “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” – popular song by Donald Yetter Gardner, 1944 All I want for this Hanukah/Christmas season is two injections of COVID vaccine. Well, not all – I want the vaccine for my son the paramedic, my 99-year-old father-in-law, my husband about to turn 70, [...]

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Surviving Family Holidays

As the holidays wind down, many of us have either returned home from visiting family, said our goodbyes to relatives we hosted, or are still in the midst of a family visit. Perhaps you’ve had to restrain yourself from challenging a hypochondriac aunt, a brother-in-law who slugs the eggnog and then become obnoxious or the boorish cousin who [...]

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