I received an email the other day. It was from someone who I once had a secondary connection to. While this person is certainly an intelligent, thoughtful person, their email was another one of those Henny Penny, “the sky is falling,” type of screeds. I read the email and the link attached and felt powerless. There was nothing I could do to change the problem being highlighted because it was too big for me. It was a macro level problem, and I need to stay focused on the micro level realities of life. Continue reading
Category Archives: Local culture
Nostalgia Act
Alfred Rosenberg photo-from You Know You’re From Lisbon, ME if… Facebook page.
What is it about the past that we find so attractive? Our desire to return to what we consider “better days” has become big business for marketers and others who’ve found a way to mine this vein for all it’s worth.
An email exchange the other day about the town where I grew up, Lisbon Falls, and the interest that many seem to have relative to a particular page on Facebook about the town that existed when we were kids (but has long ago disappeared) finds me curious about nostalgia, and what lies behind it. Continue reading
Carpe diem
When the lights go down in the city.
Maine has one place that comes close to being a city. That would be Portland. It might be one of the best small cities in America.
Marriage between dear friends (one of them sharing my last name), a post-nuptial dance party, and an overnight, followed by breakfast at Hot Suppa! with the love of my life is a great way to kick off December and the last month of what’s been a pretty damn good year. Continue reading
Everything is local
We’ve been in a two decade state of denial about fixing our problems at home, focused on the global because somehow, we thought (convinced by tools like Thomas Friedman) that we lived in a flat world of olive trees, and we could all drive a Lexus.
With the implosion of the global financial realm, people that pay attention to things are now recognizing that taking care of our home turf might be the best approach–think, back to the future! Continue reading