The Wrack
The Wrack is the Wells Reserve blog, our collective logbook on the web.
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What An Atheist Believes In This Christmas
| December 20, 2015
Santa visited the Wells Reserve at Laudholm this summer. One of these statements is false.
The following was published in the Biddeford-Saco Journal Tribune Sunday edition, 12/20/2015.
[Trigger warning: the following paragraph may contain troubling information for preteens]
Like many parents, my wife and I get a real kick out of the Santa thing. There’s something delicious about a full month of lying, straight-faced, to our eight-year-old and five-year-old. Usually we’re trying to dispel myths, convey science, explain the world, and correct pronunciation. Come Christmas season, we just start making @#$# up. The holidays are a wonderful vacation from reality, aren’t they?
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Independent Claus
| December 17, 2015
We received a lovely thank-you letter in mid-November from a summer visitor. What a guy.
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What Do You Get for the Planet That Has Everything?
| December 14, 2013
The following was published in the Biddeford-Saco Journal Tribune Sunday edition, 12/15/13 (and may also appear, with other goodies, in members' mailboxes shortly...):
Normally, I do not talk to dead opossums. But since I’d watched this one keel over right in front of me, I felt I had to say something.
