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Linda Upham-Bornstein
Morning over Pliny Range, Lancaster
Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
But we are sometimes strangely inconsistent in English about where we deploy the. We use it of rivers (the Mississippi, the Merrimack) but not of lakes, we use it of groups of islands (the Azores, the Isles of Shoals) but not of individual islands, and we use it of mountain ranges (the Andes, the White Mountains) but not of individual mountains, unless they are in Switzerland (the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau).
Good August, Musers, good summer’s height, good brilliance of flowers, of sun, of summer feet and well used beach chairs. In today’s musings, I simply have questions.
Welcome to the “Sweetie Pie Senior” column. Not really, but my daughter said my last columns could more aptly be titled Grumpy Elder.
Why are we surprised when the ninety degree weather shows up with his friend Humidity.
There’s a strange thing that often happens as we get older. We either become invisible, or are underestimated as to our knowledge, humor and awareness of the world around us.
An oyster farmer named Graham Platner came out of nowhere to run for the Senate against Susan Collins, the last moderate Republican still surviving in the wild. He entered the primary as an angry progressive and he handily defeated the establishment’s preferred candidate.
When I saw the bumper sticker, “Incite Art, Create Community” I could not help but think of you and my little town of Newmarket, New Hampshire.
If you’ve seen the new movie, or heard the hype and hoopla about it, you may well think it’s time to dig up your old copy, or pick a new translation to buy. There are a lot of choices.
As I watched the Norway soccer team win more games than they were expected to win in the World Cup, and saw the team and its fans join in synchronized air-rowing and chanting of “Roo!” or “Hoo!” at each stroke, I got to thinking about the Vikings, the team’s nickname, and this thing about rowing.