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November 19, 2021

MOOSE MEAT

November 19, 2021/ Val Marier
MOOSE MEAT

Moose chili, anyone?

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November 19, 2021/ Val Marier/ 11 Comments
November 11, 2021

AUTUMNAPHILE

November 11, 2021/ Val Marier
AUTUMNAPHILE

Hot mulled cider, cozy wool socks, morning fires in the hearth — that’s my kind of season.

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October 28, 2021

JOHN GRISHAM AND I HAVE A "LUNCH DATE"

October 28, 2021/ Val Marier
JOHN GRISHAM AND I HAVE A "LUNCH DATE"

Okay, it wasn’t just us. And it was “virtual.” But still, WOW!

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October 22, 2021

THE MAN SHE KNEW

October 22, 2021/ Val Marier
THE MAN SHE KNEW

Jean Becker, chief of staff for President George Herbert Walker Bush, was in the “room where it happened” for 25 years .

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October 15, 2021

"A-GUH-PAN-THUHS"

October 15, 2021/ Val Marier
"A-GUH-PAN-THUHS"

Agapanthus, a popular perennial that grows from a bulb-like rhizome, is the only genus in the subfamily Agapantheoideae of the flowering plant family Amaryllidaceae.

Is that more than you want to know?

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October 07, 2021

INSIDE THE GATE

October 07, 2021/ Val Marier
INSIDE THE GATE

Vladimir Putin, Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher plus many locals have visited the Bush estate. I never made it past the guardhouse until a week ago.

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September 30, 2021

ELVIS LIVES!

September 30, 2021/ Val Marier
ELVIS LIVES!

We “old fahts” rocked Memory Lane last night.

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September 16, 2021

ANOTHER WRITER'S VOICE

September 16, 2021/ Val Marier
ANOTHER WRITER'S VOICE

“The Arrival of Fall”

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September 09, 2021

DELILAH AND WAYLON

September 09, 2021/ Val Marier
DELILAH AND WAYLON

These pet miniature donkeys bring joy to the neighborhood

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September 02, 2021

HAIR!

September 02, 2021/ Val Marier
HAIR!

The pre-Labor Day, back-to-school, end-of-August haircut ritual.

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ABOUT VAL

Hello, I’m Val Marier …. a freelance journalist who lives in Wells, Maine. I’m a graduate of Skidmore College, a contented and happy wife, mother and grandmother who also enjoys knitting, golfing, traveling and reading. I try to bring my positive perspective on “life in my 70s” — whoops, now life in my ‘80s” — to my blog and hope you enjoy reading Wandering With Val.


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