Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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Dispatches from a Porch Swing
Dispatches from a Porch Swing
Maine

Maine

“He’s healthy and unstooped, and has as many marbles as he ever had.”

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Jen Deaderick
Aug 31, 2023
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I’ve been writing less lately. I know. It’s been August, and August is vacation time. After years of my schooling, then my kid’s schooling, my brain just switches into vacation mode in August automatically. I go to Maine in my mind.

We went to Maine every year when I was a kid. Mom would rent a cheap cabin in Waldoboro that had electricity but no runnin…

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