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By Marion Tucker Honeycutt

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• Chin back

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Aug 28
  The older I get, the more I find out how much I don't know, especially little things that are so simple I wonder how did I get this old and not ...
  

• Dirt walker

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jul 30
  I've been a dirt walker all my life. To me, all shoes are for is to keep your feet warm and safe from man-made surfaces and snow. Of course, as a ...
  

• One-stop shopping

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jul 02
  I may not be able to go home again, but I can see it from here. Thoreau's admonition to "Simplify, simplify" comes to mind in the grocery store ...
  
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  A 2020 version of World War II's 'Victory Garden'

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - May 28
  This spring's new "crop" around the county is raised beds. Along with all the craziness we've been dealing with this spring, the empty shelves of ...
  
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  The powerless life

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Apr 30
  When major storms hit us, especially if they bring down the power lines, my mind goes back to the little farm tucked into 500 acres of Maine's ...
  

• We can do this

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Apr 02
  Well here we all are — together as it were — separately in our homes in the greatest shutdown of the world ever known. Many are temporarily out of ...
  
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  Don’t touch that…

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Mar 05
  Germs, germs, germs. What is the "germiest" thing in your house? Clue. Wherever you go, there it is. It's at the end of your arms. It's your ...
  

• Frying pan biscuits

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Feb 07
  Made Grammie Tucker's famous and fluffy buttermilk biscuits this morning. Baked 'em in one of my hundred-plus-year-old cast-iron fry pans. (These ...
  

• Letter to a prospective migrant from Florida

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jan 10
  A couple of Floridians posted on Facebook that they are contemplating leaving their home state and moving to Maine, up around the Rangely Region. ...
  

• The real story, 400 years ago

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Nov 28
  And what would you be having for Thanksgiving dinner come Thursday if there were no Hannaford's or Tozier's — indeed, if the nearest store of any ...
  

• Maine's wild 'vision-fruit'

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Aug 13
  My favorite way to eat our wild blueberries is "neat." They're smaller than the high bush and cultivated but are so much sweeter. They're great ...
  

• Slugs and ticks

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jul 16
  As for slugs, this is the first year for many years that I've seen an onslaught of them. This is a creature that really has no redeeming features. ...
  

• Too many 'everythings'

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jun 18
  After eight-plus decades of living all over the country from the North Woods of Maine on the Tucker Farm, where I was raised by my Grampa Roy and ...
  

• A food-independent state?

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - May 14
  One thing this whole “shelter in place” debacle has showed us, if we stopped to recognize it, is that we spend a lot of money on things we could ...
  

• 'Don’t pull at those knots, Marion'

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Apr 16
  Well. That happened. The blizzard out of nowhere. Hardly a typical April storm. The whole state was already sheltered-in-place and then the lights ...
  

• The sky, the sky!

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Mar 19
  As of this writing, we now have a whole three cases of “The Virus” recognized in our state. The sky is falling.... Meanwhile, as of a week ago, ...
  
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  Weather fore art thou?

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Feb 20
  Looking at weather reports on Accuweather, aka "hardly ever accurate weather," and NOAH along with the newscasts, it's a guessing game as to ...
  

• I am not a grouper

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jan 24
  Stumbled upon a photo of a long line of Jeeps/people bumper-to-bumper trailing through a Maine forest road. The caption read: “One of the million ...
  

• The last

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Dec 26
  Rummaging around recently in the old three-story, plus basement, barn that houses thousands of old books, tools and paraphernalia at Liberty Tool ...
  

• I’m an artist, so…

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Nov 06
  We don't do schedules. We don't do clubs. We're not anti-social, just that we choose when and who to socialize with. Same with writers. And many ...