The Red Sox are the best team in baseball. 105 wins. They are the top seed in the playoffs and will have home field throughout. The Word Series is theirs to lose. And that scares me. Here in New England we are close to the Sox. Read More
Difficulty: Easy to moderate. The preserve features 3 miles of intersecting hiking trails that travel over small hills and a few short, steep slopes. As is the case with most forest trails in Maine, exposed tree roots and rocks can make footing tricky in some areas. Read More
Difficulty: Easy to moderate. The preserve features 3 miles of intersecting hiking trails that travel over small hills and a few short, steep slopes. As is the case with most forest trails in Maine, exposed tree roots and rocks can make footing tricky in some areas. Read More
Good morning from Augusta, where new sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and confusion about the job status of the deputy attorney general got us thinking about where the president… Read More
The corn crop here is winding down, maybe another dozen ears or so for us to eat, and some more to cut off the cob to freeze for later. We had help in the garden and in eating corn on the cob this past… Read More
Here are some random photos I took Sunday at the 2018 Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine, where it was sunny but cool temperature-wise compared to recent years I can remember offhand. I was there for fun, not for work, and so only have the images I took… Read More
This is very bad news. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found just 100 miles from Maine, in Quebec. Our Fish and Wildlife Department is taking this very seriously, and working with New Hampshire and Vermont to figure out the best ways to protect our… Read More
More than four centuries ago, Damariscove Island was a busy place. Before Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies were founded, the island was settled in 1604 as a commercial fishing enterprise. Abenaki Indians were even earlier intermittent residents, sporadically visiting what they called Aquahega in primitive canoes during the summer… Read More
I continued exploring recent releases from Low, Interpol, Death Cab For Cutie and Foxing on the show this week, while the retro alternative set marked the 30th anniversary of the first Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1988 with a block composed solely of songs that appeared on the list that debut week. Read More
With 40 or more hours of free time per week in retirement, what you do with that time can make your life better or worse. What will you do? Read More
Washington’s Uncivil War. Read More
Legislators are already jockeying for leadership positions in closely divided chambers that will rest on the outcomes of key 2018 campaigns. Read More
You know those memes that talk about a dad’s protectiveness of his daughter? How he’ll hunt you down and kill you if you hurt his little girl? Let’s have more of that, please. Don’t get me wrong – the women in my life don’t… Read More
Tiger Woods won his first tournament in 5 years Sunday at the PGA Tour Championship at East Lake Country Club in Atlanta. There are two camps forming in wake of Tiger’s 80th career victory: those that think this is the greatest career comeback an athlete has ever made… Read More
Melissa Kim has been writing wonderful children’s books in a partnership with Maine Audubon, where 10 percent of the money goes to Audubon’s outreach programs for underserved preschools. Melissa’s new book, A Little Brown Bat Story, in the Audubon series, was inspired by true stories of… Read More
County kart racers finish race season strong at Spud Speedway, Caribou. Kody Swanson wins fourth USAC Silver Crown title Read More
When I’m about to head out on a long morning run, it is daunting, even slightly intimidating. Running is hard. I do not love it. If I’ve been sleeping, my forty-six year old body is stiff from hours of being horizontal and motionless, and at that hour, the… Read More
Endorsing Shawn Moody for Governor would merely make official the Board of Trustees’ right-wing Republican slant and ingratiate the Governor-elect with the UME System and perhaps increase state funding. Since Moody is already a Trustee of not only the UMaine System but also the UME… Read More
As a shepherd, it has been an education and sobering weekend. I have gained a lot of knowledge but realized that I have a lot more to learn. I was excited to go to the Common Ground Fair this weekend as one of Maine’s leading experts in… Read More
Things get under my skin. Now and then. Often silly little things that I shouldn’t think twice about. But I have issues and often can’t let them go. One of my favorite pet peeves reared its ugly head repeatedly this past… Read More
