Things I have learned from my children, an incomplete list. The point of painting is not THE painting. Plowing through all your new library books in a five-hour reading marathon is a legitimate choice. You can just read them again.

A view on life in eastern coastal Maine. Monday, March 12, 2018. This map shows all the rural Maine towns that have closed their public schools since 2004. This map was part of a project that has not come to fruition, but is informative enough on its own that it is worth posting. It shows every school in small-town Maine that has closed since roughly 2004, leaving behind no public school in that town. For each of those commutes, the edge of town is followed by a long stretch of two-lane road cutting thro.