There’s No Free Lunch

Recently I posed a question on social media that went something like this:

If you commute to a full-time job, do you expect your employer to provide you free parking? What about free lunch? Why one, and not the other?

Most of my fellow Americans (and especially Mainers) might consider the question facetious. But is it, really? Or does it point to a set of cultural assumptions that ought to be challenged?

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Slower Traffic Writes Again

I started this blog nearly seven years ago, and gave up owning a car eight years before that. But in a sense, I started it back in the 20th century, as a kid from Maine stuck in a middle-aged body in Southern California.

“This is no way to live,” I muttered to myself almost every day, often when mired in a traffic jam on a four-lane freeway. There was plenty to do in San Diego, but you had to be willing to sit in traffic for almost any of it, because there were always a thousand people trying to do the same thing, and we were all trying to do it in cars.

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Al Arthur

I have just learned this morning of the sudden passing of Al Arthur of Belfast, Maine, on October 16. Al help me update and re-design this website earlier this year. We never met in person, but he was invaluable in helping me get this site up to speed, and we had several good telephone conversations. Condolences to his wife Julie, and to everyone who knew or worked with Al. He will be missed.

HG

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