The recipe will make you blanch – but just go with it.
March 2020
Bill Nemitz: For Portland nonprofit, saving the world just got a lot tougher
Partners for World Health, a lifeline for those in desperate need of medical supplies and services, now grapples with the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
The View From Here: Don’t touch your face? Impossible
If you can’t follow the most basic rules, what do you expect hundreds of millions of others to do?
Maine Voices: 2020 candidates must address Maine housing poverty issues
Thousands of the state’s households spend over half their income on rent.
Maine Observer: Escape from the day-to-day with ‘low travel’
Nine months of rescuing animals in Southeast Asia was a way this Maine writer was able to recharge.
The Maine Millennial: It’s not liberal arts colleges that turn kids liberal
But meeting people from other walks of life does tend to open minds.
Jim Fossel: No need to raise Maine governor’s salary
There is no shortage of qualified people willing to run for an office that is supposed to be underpaid.
Carole Cochran, Boothbay Harbor: The wrong dress, the right boy
It was supposed to be the best weekend ever. I was 16, in love with my first boyfriend, and was to travel on a train from Baltimore to Virginia to see him. Peter had invited me to visit him at his boarding school in Virginia, for a weekend of football games and a dinner dance. […]
J. Lauren Sangster, Portland: It’s not easy to get back in the water
Mike and I were very different personalities. We had varied shared interests, along with our individual ones. We learned how each of us needed to move through the relationship, and over time adjusted how we interacted. He trusted my opinion on decorating our home. I trusted his on which wine goes with what meal. We […]
Ask a Naturalist: Doesn’t that red-winged blackbird realize it’s February?
Wildlife questions from real Mainers answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox