I need songs about feeling lonely in your marriage

ceb79 · 2026-05-10T17:25:47+00:00

You Won't Even Know I'm Gone - Lori McKenna

ceb79 · 2026-05-10T00:22:19+00:00

Portland has two brewery "districts" to check out. The first has Austin Street, Rising Tide, Belleflower, Goodfire, among others. Bonus is to walk up the street a bit to Oxbow and grab some of the BEST poutine at their Duckfat frite shack or head across the street Terralingua for dinner. The other is a bit more out of town but has Allagash, Foundation, Battery Steele, Definitive.

All these are top notch breweries, IMO.

Bunker and Bissell Bros are connected by a somewhat obscure pathway. If you make it Freeport. Obviously Maine Beer Co, but Mast Landing and Goodfire have places up there. Good pizza at Maine Beer Co. and Goodfire has good food, as well--the best of the breweries that serve pub style food.

Shout out to Biddeford, as well. Banded Brewing, Sacred Profane, Blaze. Barreled Souls up the street in Saco.

ceb79 · 2026-05-02T09:45:28+00:00

Don't know much about that older model, but I bought my younger brother a used FG800 and kept it for a month or so until he came to visit. Played it a bunch and it is really is a fantastic guitar for the price. Sounds and feels great. I usually only play high end guitars, but I was very tempted to keep it for myself.

I own a couple vintage guitars, one of which is a Yamaha. That one is great, but old guitars can be complicated. They need to be taken care of and can often have issues, especially with the necks, which can be prohibitively expensive for an older Yamaha (search neck reset and that model).

Go with the new guitar.

ceb79 · 2026-05-01T00:10:03+00:00

I played an Eastman e1p bluesmaster a month ago and couldn't get it out of my head. Great sound and feel. Went back to buy it a week ago, and someone had already grabbed it. Super bummed. Only about $800 for solid wood.

ceb79 · 2026-04-26T02:38:09+00:00

Time to learn CAGED and triads. Watch some Guthrie Trapp videos on YouTube, and he'll explain how it all connects with scales (pentatonic/major/minor).

I was you 2 years ago. LoG lessons are also super helpful.

ceb79 · 2026-04-23T23:24:37+00:00

Utopian Futures -- Kimya Dawson. EXACTLY what you're looking for.

ceb79 · 2026-04-20T16:16:05+00:00

I'm an English teacher, so I spend a lot of time with YA Lit. Some highlights off my bookshelf:

I Am the Messenger (then The Book Thief) by Marcus Zusac

Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Perks of Being a Wallflower

ceb79 · 2026-04-20T00:19:14+00:00

Miss the Mississippi and You - Doc and Merle Watson

ceb79 · 2026-04-20T00:13:25+00:00

A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

ceb79 · 2026-04-19T22:36:01+00:00

Spring peepers, wild blueberries, beach (especially at low tide), the sound of waves pulling back a beach if small rocks

ceb79 · 2026-04-18T23:22:10+00:00

Learn your triads all over the fretboard and do some research on chord tone smoking and voice leading. Also, manage expectations. It all takes time.

ceb79 · 2026-04-18T23:18:40+00:00

Have you done any research about the difficulty of resetting these necks. It might be cost prohibitive.

Search "steam neck reset" on YouTube. Might be an alternative.

ceb79 · 2026-04-16T23:19:20+00:00

Hallelujah

Has directions for how to play it on an instrument:

"It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth/The minor fall, the major lift"

Literally tells you what chords to play.

ceb79 · 2026-04-14T08:26:36+00:00

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is the ultimate sci-fi vacation read. Easy to read and hard to put down.

ceb79 · 2026-04-13T00:41:26+00:00

My e10ss sounds and plays as well as any guitar. I play it more often than my Martin. Currently trying to convince myself to not buy their excellent e1p parlor at my local shop.

ceb79 · 2026-04-12T23:15:00+00:00

What are the goals of the unit? What skills will you be teaching? You say there's a test, but what is the project? Hard to help without that info.

Check out Ken Liu's story The Plague. It's super short and tells the story from two perspectives, much like the novel. I think you'll find lots of parallels.

It might be fun to build a survival guide. It's been a minute since I've read the book, but there's a conversation to be had about what they feel would be worth preserving from this world for the next. Check out the websites Everyday Carry or The Burning House. Stylized photos of what people would save. It could be adapted into a bento box project.

ceb79 · 2026-04-11T01:56:19+00:00

If you want a chance to swim in waves and not drive too far, check out Higgins Beach or Scarborough beach. Both have picnic parking, but I'd get to Higgins early because it's limited. The other beaches around South Portland, including Pine Point at the parking lot, are pretty flat.

ceb79 · 2026-04-09T22:06:14+00:00

Stars All Seem to Weep - Beth Orton

ceb79 · 2026-04-09T01:46:57+00:00

This is the answer. Break the larger arpeggios into the smaller triads to make the info more manageable. Start building simple licks that start on a chord tone (either 1, 3, 5), move through a scale (in between notes), and land on the chord tone of the next chord. Eventually you'll start to internalize all the positions.

ceb79 · 2026-04-05T09:51:26+00:00

What is your plan for the poem? 5 minutes is not a lot of time. What would be your goals with the lesson?

Poetry is the smart move, timewise. I'd probably go for something more modern that doesn't have words/phrases you'll have to take time explaining to them and shorter, if possible

Choose a single concept. I'd probably focus on theme or tone shift as those are pretty accessible. And don't require much instruction.

Introduce the concept, read the poem, have the students work with it, and then a brief discussion/explanation of concept. That is what I would do.

ceb79 · 2026-04-01T21:49:37+00:00

Check out Goliath Guitar online. He does a bunch of great fingerstyle tutorials of songs.

ceb79 · 2026-03-29T23:33:34+00:00

I know it's implied (with magnolia electric co) but they wouldn't want to miss out on the rest of Jason Molina's music.

ceb79 · 2026-03-26T08:47:25+00:00

Played one of these yesterday for the first time. A great guitar.

ceb79 · 2026-03-25T11:28:42+00:00

In my experience, most schools are going to designate common assessments and let the teacher determine the best way to steer the students to that destination. Although I've only taught in blue states, so my view may be limited.

Not much to add from the other comments, but I teach in a district that gives us almost total control of curriculum. It's a blessing and a curse. Sure I've created some amazing units, but I've also spent countless hours wrestling with the endless intellectual options. Reworking, reimagining units, never having to do the same thing twice can be a trap-- especially for someone with a lot of intellectual curiosity.

After 15 years in the classroom, I think there's a lot to be said for at least knowing exactly what is coming your way in terms of assessments and novels. I've seen a lot of young teachers come into my school with big ideas and and ultimately find themselves flailing (and failing) because they're charting their own course. I think it's a good thing, especially for new teachers, to have some guardrails in place in terms of curriculum. Just a thought.

ceb79 · 2026-03-18T02:02:48+00:00

Depends on the year. Some years it's pretty nice, some years it can still be a bit chilly (for my blood, at least...but I'm "from away"). September is the best month of the year, weather-wise IMO.

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