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    A Life Worth Living

    Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life

    Bysmartin March 1, 2020March 1, 2020

    We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How can something be “the best” and “the worst” at the same time?   The conditions were tricky. There was plenty of snow but it had…

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    A Life Worth Living

    Feelings of mastery

    Bysmartin June 2, 2012February 21, 2026

    Flash back to 1992. That’s the part of my life that I’m writing about now. Here is a part of Chapter 35, entitled, Winter on the Coast. At the time we were living on the coast of Maine. This is an excerpt in which I describe one of our cross country skiing experiences. *Begin excerpt*…

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  • Home
  • Sue’s Blog: A Life Worth Living
  • A Tribute to The Seeing Eye
    • The Harnessing of Love
    • Beverly, The Firecracker in Harness
    • The Different Faces of Retirement
    • Quoddy in Retirement
    • Beverly Crosses the Rainbow Bridge
    • Kismet, Beloved, Impish, Brilliant
    • Kismet Crosses the Rainbow Bridge
    • My “Quandary”
    • A Journey of Change, Patience, and Love
  • Learning to Live with Blindness
    • An Unfinished Book
    • Three-letter Words
    • braille “Flash Cards”
    • The Touch of Reality
    • It’s Cane-Cuttin’ Time
    • What Do an X-ray and a Signature Have in Common?
    • On the Move, Moving On
    • Does It Get Any Easier?
    • Hands On
    • The Drop-Off Lesson
  • Contact Sue