Say what you like about me – I am able to accept some things at face value without understanding anything about them.
Robert Skoglund
Posted inOpinion
The humble Farmer: Global warming’s impacts hitting home ever faster for former snowbird
Had I not seen it, I would not believe that one storm could raise the water so high as to make miles of Florida coastline unfit for buildings.
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The humble Farmer: Unexpected parallels between dishwashers and newspaper columns
Not owning a dishwasher is like never shopping at a big-box store – it gives one a warm feeling of superiority.
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The humble Farmer: Very good times on the Victory Chimes
I spent the summer of 1958 on the wooden schooner, which is up for sale next month. Diary entries remind me of the ‘best job I ever had.’
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The humble Farmer: Memories are made of music and long-ago favors
On singing along to songs from the 1940s and recalling kindnesses extended to those in tractor cabs.
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The humble Farmer: Times change. The memory of our B&B will live on.
‘Bills evolved when Maine innkeepers started charging people from Massachusetts so much that they couldn’t look them in the eye.’ A lot else has evolved, too.
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The humble Farmer: A Maine farm seethes and roils with adventure
On cataract surgery, cows, genetic fortitude and the meaning of ‘small change.’
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The humble Farmer: There are none so blind as those who wait for cataract surgery
A trip to the hospital prompts observations of the youth of doctors, the good sense of nurses and the chores waiting at home.
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The humble Farmer: Volumes spoken in the correct pronunciation of the word ‘filth’
With curled lip and bared teeth, the writer’s wife gives voice to an emotion as old as humankind.
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The humble Farmer: Party in the rhubarb patch, and other spring revels
’Tis the season when an old Maine man enjoys the unfamiliar sensation of a hand-me-down shirt that fits.