By Mary on May 29, 2009 in notes from the trenches, report from the field | 1 Comment
This is what happens when well-intentioned people write about my homeland. The Kennebec Café, named after the Kennebec river, is located in Fairfield (pop. 6,573, mostly blue collar families and the occasional moose) and also serves adjacent Waterville (pop. 15,605, including the 2,000 barefooted students of Colby College). I can’t remember the last time a [...]
By Mary on May 28, 2009 in a worthy ponder, approved, internet, report from the field | 0 Comments
Developments in the burgeoning Portland* blogroll, of which this Nut House is** a part: a tempest flares and is calmed (?) over at the anonymous Point (who is this fractious critic?). Meanwhile, someone or something who is obviously (?) a pseudonym is reviewing baked goods on the city’s preeminent music blog (??). (Related, will I [...]
By Mary on May 12, 2009 in report from the field | 1 Comment
This afternoon three burly men stood smoking outside Colucci’s, directly below the sign advertising 3 HAM ITALIANS $10.99. They coughed and lifted cigarettes to their lips, their bare arms moving through shadow to light and back again. “You have mustard on your leg,” one said to another as I passed. Everyone looked down. Mustard-leg was, [...]
By Mary on Mar 19, 2009 in report from the field | 0 Comments
…after three full days cooped up inside sick and wheezing, let me tell you, it’s up there in the pantheon of prime good feelings. I walked down the hill to the ocean and aired out my wheezy lungs. I even stopped thinking about a few things for a minute. The ocean smelled complete. Walking back [...]