“Witch hunt.”… Read More
I see myself in every addict of every kind. When I say, “There but for the grace of God go I”, I am relating and identifying. I do so with compassion, but more importantly, with empathy. Compassion is feeling for someone. Empathy is feeling with someone. Read More
When I saw the cover of the book, Moe Pea The Moose Grows Up, published by North Country Press and written by Steven Powell, I knew my granddaughter, 5-year old Ada, would love it. Because the cover features a drawing of a moose, and Ada loves moose. Read More
Making political assertions without substance has created myths often mistaken for political truth. Time for some myth-busting. Read More
Want to get stronger? Try doing some planks. We've got a quick video demo for you. And while you're down on the floor, why not do a few push-ups, too. Read More
Historic spacewalk. Read More
“All of us are better when we’re loved.” By the time I came upon those words at the end of Alistair MacLeod’s 1999 novel, No Great Mischief, I was changed, altered as a reader. I found this work by sheer accident. I was not looking for… Read More
Franco-Americans are generally familiar with their genealogy because family reunions are celebrated during multiple generations, so it’s fairly easy to keep track of the current data. For example, our L’Heureux family genealogy is well known going back four generations. Moreover, many of the ancestors’ names have been hand… Read More
The College Republicans in Orono and their philosophically-aligned groups are not strangers to boundary-pushing. Read More
This is the second in my series of columns of my favorite deer hunting stories. Let’s start with the story about my son Joshua’s deer that he shot when he was 16 years old. Josh and I were sitting in… Read More
The presidential debates and the way we pick our candidates seems somewhat problematic to me. Read More
Leaves are falling, temperatures, too. Autumn in Maine heralds the beginning of flu season. Are you planning to get a flu shot? Read More
The recent public relations dilemma faced by the National Basketball Association (NBA) after Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey’s pro-democracy tweet, earlier in October, revealed the internal conflict currently experienced by the NBA as it transitions from a local to a global product. Basketball games, the epicenter of… Read More
Fresh start, turn the page, clean slate, new year, so on and so forth. The Celtics players and staff have reiterated those messages in various forms since the moment Celtics Media Day. Last year’s underwhelming, and frankly depressing season left a bad taste in the collective mouths of… Read More
A cornucopia of acorns has been falling from oak trees this season, a phenomenon that happens roughly every two to five years for reasons that defy scientific explanation. — News Item… Read More
“A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
It wasn’t a wild animal that distracted me. It was a wild phone call, an argument about work no less. I wasn’t paying close attention to where I was. I wasn’t driving with the care we all should expect of one another. And I made a… Read More
As the national draft ramped up in the North, wealthy men could hire a substitute or pay $300 for a commutation. Poor men could so neither, and this cartoon styled as a draft poster revealed the results. (Library of Congress)… Read More
I love the concept for the book Coastal Maine in Words and Art that features 27 stories by various writers and artwork about our coast, focused on Rockland. The Solon Center for Research and Publishing sponsored a contest where writers… Read More
A call for a ceasefire and sanctions could have been avoided by just continuing to support the Kurds. Read More
