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Franco-American Book Reading by Susan Poulin in China Village Library By Juliana L’Heureux | Monday January 27, 2014 | 11:01 AM A book reading by the entertainingly creative Maine writer and Franco-American Susan Poulin can make a cold winter day seem balmy. Readings from her humor filled guide for life, “Finding Your Inner Moose”, Poulin drew a warm response from those who filled the Albert Church Brown Memorial Library, in the charming town of China Village, east of Augusta. Poulin entertained the audience by reading stories about how to be a balanced person who enjoys life, from the perspective of her character, Ida LeClair. Her common sense advice and comically expressed words of wisdom are portrayed …

How Do You Want to Feel?

Happy 2014! I hope your holidays were wonderful, and if they weren’t all you wanted ‘em to be, well, at least they’re over! Time to take a deep breath, regroup, and move on. As you may or may not know, I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore. No, I do what my niece Caitlin calls “setting an intention.” She’s works down at Mahoosuc Health Food, and seems to have the inside scoop on all things New Age-y! “An intention is gentler,” she says. “When you break a resolution, well, it’s done. With an intention, you may lose sight of it, but that doesn’t mean it’s lost forever. All you have to do is refocus on …