Selected Samples of Adam's writing...
AAA Northern New England Journeys - January 2010
"Adversity isn't a hurdle, it's also a building block"
"It's just a pile of rocks," one of my friends said. Nonsense. They are just a pile of rocks like a book is just a collection of words. Neatly arranged, sometimes so intricately, you would have thought the stones were engineered to fit exactly as they were standing, these walls are monuments dating back to colonial times. They tell a stories, and outline maps. Who was here? Did these people leave any other marks on the land? Did they know these piles of stone, neat and intricate as they are, would be their legacy? Long ago, some farmer pulled these stones and wrote the book of the land around him...
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NH Union Leader - April 30th,
2009 "Adversity isn't a hurdle, it's also a building block" I'm in my yard, pounding makeshift stakes for a makeshift fence into a makeshift garden when a picture of my father comes into my mind. He's tilling the garden. Carefully, he walks to the side of the old rear-tine tiller, as the old earth meets the air, soft and ready for the seeds he will plant later that afternoon. I'm about six or seven in this mental image and I don't realize how poor we are.
I'm thinking about those days more and more now. I've been out of full time employment, it's benefeits, and my old co-workers since February. The ground was hard and.....
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NH Union Leader - February 4th,
2009 "He Needs A
New Place to Hang His Coffee Mug" My wife and I drove by a Goodwill store. I can't help it, I'm a
thrifty person. That may come in handy these days. More on that in a
bit.
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new window) NH Union Leader - January 22nd,
2009 "Parking Ticket
Inspired Him to Take on City Hall" They say you can't fight City Hall.
While that may be true in some sense, the following is a letter I sent to the
city concerning a recent parking ticket, and their official reponse. Portions of
both letters have been edited for length. My effor was successful. NH Union Leader - November 6th,
2008 "It's all
about the Meatballs."
Manchester Express - December 24th,
2007 "Stealing a Few Childhood
Memories" I have some great
memories of Christmas time when I was a child. Click HERE to
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NOTE: This opens Acrobat in a new window) Manchester Express - November 27th,
2007
"Making the Most of a Tuesday Night Out"
Tuesdays are my
night. Click HERE to continue
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There was something that drove
me to it. It was a white coffee mug with the words "Dream Boat" in big black letters on the side. Hilarious.
For a dollar.....
I was
greeted on Friday by one of your lovely orange envelopes on my car door. I can't
thank you enough.
I
thought I had done everything........
First off, I grew
up in Wisconsin. The idea that Christmas trees start at $35 and go up, way up
from there is a foreign one for me.
But then again, my memories
of getting a tree around this time are a little fuzzy. That's because I think it
might be a repressed
memory. I
think my father stole a tree every year. I'm almost certain of it....
It's a strange night to go out, but in Manchester
it's a ritual.
Tuesdays. Strange Brew Tavern. I'm not the only one who's
figured it out, judging by the packed house every week.
And it's the eclectic mix of
people that's so striking. Poor college students mix with beer snobs and
radio personalities. Blow-hards bellow about local politics and presidential...
