http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ en-us 2007-10-11T12:32:12-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/017059.html I've been remiss in not writing lately - not that I haven't had anything to say (that NEVER happens) but I've been bogged down with... 17059@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ I tried it. I didn't die. 2007-10-11T12:32:12-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/016545.html I've heard it said that what defines you as a person isn't what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you.... 16545@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ I tried it. I didn't die. 2007-10-02T15:49:00-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/016365.html Checked another "must do" off my list this weekend: Tackle white water rafting (even better, survive with my limbs, my skull and my pride in... 16365@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ I tried it. I didn't die. 2007-09-25T14:02:45-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/016075.html I’ve come to understand that to officially call yourself a Mainer, at least three generations of your family must have lived, worked and died on... 16075@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Becoming a Mainer 2007-09-19T07:57:55-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015872.html Panic. I flipped papers over on my desk, emptied my bag, the laptop case and the drawers. Nothing under the desk but a pile of... 15872@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ The wallet entry 2007-09-14T11:01:19-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015681.html In a land of useless forwards, we've all learned to be weary of our e-mail inbox. On top of the multitude of spam, our own... 15681@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ 2007-09-11T07:08:27-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015619.html Your mother may call it "impolite," but sometimes you just can't help overhearing other people's conversations. Like the office manager loudly reprimanding an underling via... 15619@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Musings From The Cube (icle) 2007-09-10T07:18:10-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015530.html As obnoxious as those clusters of signs are (on the roadside, at the amusement park, at the grocery store) I sincerely believe that most are... 15530@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Signs, signs, everywhere the signs 2007-09-07T08:08:13-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015459.html Art, they say, is subjective. That means there’s plenty to be subjective about in Portland. There are enough galleries and studios in town to keep... 15459@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Things that don't fit anywhere else 2007-09-05T18:44:41-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015385.html When you're seriously aching for a local news fix, breaking into a stranger's house to use the internet might be worth the risk. WATERVILLE 9:24... 15385@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Mainers Behaving Badly 2007-09-04T14:03:38-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015328.html Go ahead and tell yourself Labor Day isn't the official end of summer. "Another 19 days!" But my already fading almost-tan says differently. We're now... 15328@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Things that don't fit anywhere else 2007-09-03T06:24:34-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015233.html There’s a woman standing at the edge of the fishless pond that marks the center of your residential neighborhood. She’s holding what appears to be... 15233@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Things that don't fit anywhere else 2007-08-30T23:36:07-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015175.html I had a professor in college who gave an entire lecture on how people don't complain enough. Yes, I scoffed then just as you may... 15175@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Things that don't fit anywhere else 2007-08-29T17:22:26-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015130.html I just had to write after I read the "Seen Jesus lately? Me neither" blog a few weeks ago. I won't lie (never have, never... 15130@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Guest bloggers 2007-08-28T22:00:45-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/015085.html God bless cell phone cameras. Without them, I'd be forced to describe this scene with an array of weakly descriptive words that would never do... 15085@http://www.mainetoday.com/shannon/ Things that make absolutely no sense 2007-08-27T21:20:44-05:00