I renounced my citizenship in the State of Maine twenty-eight years ago, when I moved away after college. Locals will tell you I’m not a real Mainer anyways; I was still “from away”, having lived there only 24 of my first 25 years.

When I left, I was eager to leave the land of poverty, ignorance, and racism behind me and start a new, adult life in ( Read more... )

Well, hasn't this been an interesting month? Unfortunately, you haven't heard much about it, because I don't tend to go on about day-to-day stuff, and the stuff that was significant required the approval of a bunch of people to share, so I just bagged it. It's too bad, because some of it was truly amazing, but those emotions are gone now.

It all ( Read more... )