* Peter Pan and Skippy are poor substitutes for Jif.
* Watching the number one pitching prospect for your team make his big league debut and proceed to hit three batters and give up seven runs in four innings is depressing.
* Listening to the entire Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast on the drive home from Maine is at once fascinating and horrifying.
* When the stock market rises 11% over the six weeks you are in Maine, then drops 5% the first week you return it makes you wonder about the cosmic correlation.
* Lucy was not born to live in the suburbs.
* Watching people who were all for government bailouts of banks and gladly cashed their stimulus checks argue against the moral hazard of bailing out college loans makes you grateful for the rarity of your own moral, economic and political consistency on the subject of government bailouts.
* The air smells better in Maine.
* The new Elvis film is one of the saddest stories ever told.
* Getting back into running in Virginia humidity is a form of self hatred.
* “In Essentials Unity, in Nonessentials Liberty, in all things Charity” is perhaps the finest summation of a church’s doctrine I’ve ever heard.
* How is it that a person can go away for six short weeks then forget how to run his own coffeemaker?
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