Category Archives: Friday Pillow Talk

Stay Tuned!

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

I’m in a slow-moving turkey coma today.  My regularly scheduled “Friday Pillow Talk” installment is only half-written and I’m late for the office.  Let’s meet here at some point this weekend and I’ll tell you how winter storm Cato brought … Continue reading →

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Prayerz

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

The quest to speak French is on! I’m at “level 5” in my Duolingo lessons, translating fascinating sentences like “The boy is rich,” and “He has a small shark.”  Benny Lewis, young polyglot extraordinaire I mentioned on Monday’s blog post, … Continue reading →

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Trouble at Circle Time

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

After spending a long election day in the former Marion T. Morse (MTM) elementary school gymnasium, I started thinking about kindergarten.  The year I started, 1969, the last wave of the Baby Boom was busting out the seams of every … Continue reading →

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A Jeremiad for the Leaving

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

Today’s post started out like this: Wednesday morning after Tuesday’s elections, there was a lot of rhetoric on En Pee Are. Let me share one comment with you: “It’s time to turn this country around” said Mitch McConnell. Greater and … Continue reading →

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Your Halloween Yap

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

It’s been a long and strange week here in the little state of Maine. The national eye has been on Fort Kent, near the Canadian border where an “Ebola nurse” has created a media firestorm by writing the rules of … Continue reading →

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A Message from the Burning Bush

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

According to weather experts, New England had a Nor’easter this week.  Some areas received as much as 5 inches of rain and the Mount Washington Observatory recorded winds of up to 84 miles per hour on Wednesday evening.  It’s been … Continue reading →

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And I Might Just Add

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

A warm spell passed through New England this week.  Indian summer?  I’m not sure.  It was warm, humid, and unsettled.  Armies of Coccinellidae swarmed out of nowhere and made their way into the house; a ladybug infestation of Biblical proportions. … Continue reading →

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The Falling Leaves

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

One Saturday morning in May, 1991, I sat at my dining room table in Portland, bawling my eyes out.  It had been exactly five years since graduating from college and in between balancing my checkbook and looking at old pictures, … Continue reading →

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Caroline and Freddie

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

I’ve written a little bit about my college dormitory experiences.  Just a little bit.  I went to the University of Maine at Orono in the early 1980’s and for most of my college years, I lived in an “all girl’s … Continue reading →

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Pass Me a Chocolate, Quick!

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

On Monday, September 22, 2014, President Barack Obama authorized an airstrike against Sunni militants in Syria.  The New York Times reported the United States and her allies were “unleashing a torrent of cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs.”  Included in this … Continue reading →

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