I want you to know that irrespective of how all this shakes out, I have always taken great comfort in knowing that your children and my children know the truth about these last five years.

Despite the distortions your wife and you have put forward, I know that Max and Peter know the truth—as do Asher, Greta, Salem, and Abram.

And in the end, that’s all that really matters to me: that those six people know.

I recognize that some people might find fault in my bringing the public’s attention to “the children,” but I figured you’d be cool with it, given how—a mere 16 days ago—you spoke so passionately into the microphone from the dais at special town meeting, telling the body politic, “I deeply enjoy being able to walk in the woods with my children and my wife.”

(Sidenote: Let’s be fair, you’re not packing juice boxes and Goldfish. Your “children” are both adults and have been adults for quite some time.)

“Children” aside, I don’t know if you felt as awkward as you looked, but from where I was standing, your “my wife” mention came off like a wet fart at a funeral. It made everyone in the room realize she wasn’t even there—to vote on a conservation land purchase when she sits as a trustee on Littleton Conservation Trust. The optics on that were not great, FYI.

I also thought you’d be okay with mentioning “the children,” since yours have been asked to partake (“volun-told,” as your wife used to call it) to further her cannabis business interests. Here are a couple of quick examples:

1. Spring of 2019, your wife insisted that one of your sons (when he was still a minor) partake in a meeting where he was instructed to disclose his personal, under-age cannabis use to Littleton parents (themselves worried about their own children’s under-age cannabis use) in an effort to normalize under-age cannabis use.At the time, I didn’t say anything about this because your wife felt strongly that this “no big deal” message be delivered and that the message come from your son’s under-age mouth.Not a battle I was going to pick with her over her/your child.
2. Fall 2019 special town meeting (I’m pretty sure that’s when it was) when that same son, now that he’d reached voting age, was up at the microphone “schooling the grown-ups” (I think that the phrase your wife used when she posted the clip of this on her long-ago deleted Littleton Apothecary FB page) on cannabis.As you know, I had no say in that stunt. That was all your wife. She and I had parted ways, as they say, by that time.Even so, to me (and others), it looked like she was using him.

Matthew, your wife moves through the world violating the second formulation of Kant’s categorical imperative.

For a long time, I had a front-row seat to her treatment of others. As it pertained to your children, when they were children, I regret not having said something.

And you?

Your wife used your sons while you watched.

That’s a historical fact that you and she will not be able to re-write.

Your “children” and mine know the truth, and that’s enough for me, no matter how this all shakes out.

TTYS,

Jkb