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I'm a writer and teacher of writing living in rural Maine.
Interests: WWII Submarine history; gardening with perennials, orchids; dogs, horses; country walks; sailing the Maine coast; family; reading and writing; teaching writing and ESL.
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Wally:
Dale Carnegie, in his classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" reports almost the same experience as you had, and it taught him (eventually) that listening 75% and talking 25% was the most effective way to deal with people. I'm not there yet, but I'm finding it's so much more interesting this way, than the echo-chamber I used to live in.
Commented Aug 24, 2009 on Degrees of listening at full fathom five
Degrees of listening
I never used to be a good listener because I was too busy seeing people as audience, trying to capture and hold their attention with humor or stories. I think I learned this early, from my mother, who liked to collect stories about people who were "characters," and entertain her friends with...
Tabor: I see D.C. as having good mass transit, at least compared to Portland, Me., which has none. Everyone is thus forced to own a car, and the narrow streets weren't made for the current population, so are jammed - especially in the winter with high snowbanks on either side.
And thanks for the invite; next time, we're there!
And Wally: Thanks for the Demille recommendation. We're always looking for good light reading since Robt. B. Parker seems to have gone to shorter and shorter Spencer books, and James Lee Burke's veered off into hellacious violence. I'll look into Demille.
Commented Mar 5, 2009 on Coming Home III at full fathom five
Coming Home III
We spent the last two weeks in February on a whirlwind trip to Florida to break up the winter. We could only afford two weeks away from work, so we had to get down and back fast - five days' total - to optimize time basking in the sun. We had to keep expenses down, so we drove our hybrid Honda...
Ahh, consensus on infrequent/low fertilizing. That's just what I need to hear, works in with my normal habit of tough-love for my plants. Thanks notdotdot and joared. And Ruthe: I'd love to put this old girl outside for the summer; I know she'd love it. But she's too big, at this point, for us to move around any more!
Commented Aug 29, 2007 on Cereusly beautiful at full fathom five
Cereusly beautiful
My husband and I recently got back from a week's visit to Islesboro, a beautiful island in Penobscot Bay. When we came into our sunroom to check how the plants had fared while we were away, we noticed this long, ugly spent bloom hanging down from the top of our cactus like a short, black snake....
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