I admit it. I have been living in denial. But as we all know, avoiding a thing doesn’t actually make it go away. Whether I choose to accept it or not, Dr. Nirav Shah is leaving us for the Emerald City – Washington, D.C. When Shah joined the Maine Center for Disease Control as director […]
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Through My Lens: ESL classes should include lessons in sarcasm
Even though I am slowly improving, I often have trouble understanding sarcasm, both in face-to-face conversations and in emailing in the English language. In a 1971 study, Albert Mehrabian found that when people are trying to communicate feelings or attitudes, the message conveyed by words is only 7% of the total message, while the tone […]
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Mainewhile: Don’t let Valentine’s Day make you feel awful this year
Here we are at the start February, which means that the most dreaded of all annual celebrations is right around the corner: Valentine’s Day. This is a holiday which markets itself as being all about love, but in reality seems like it is just lying in wait to make you feel awful, no matter what […]
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Mainewhile: Glorious snow days give us much-needed break
Oh the sweet, sweet bliss of a snow day. School children and teachers across the state had their eyes trained on the sky and their hopes pinned on the forecast, waiting until that most magical of announcements came through: no school due to snow. And on a Friday, no less. By the time you read […]
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Life Unwound: Some memories are worth carrying with us
Do you have memories of childhood that still resonate today? I mean sweet ones. I know others surface, of course, but for now, I am wondering about how the good stuff of the past can inform our days today. Maybe they can brighten them or give us a hint how to live into our future. […]
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Letter: Today’s press lacks crucial journalism
I miss the press. To be more accurate, I miss the presentation of facts, absence of opinion, absence of speculation. I don’t think anyone can argue that the way news is presented is like it was two or three decades ago. I was very young during Watergate and I have studied how it unfolded and […]
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Through My Lens: Doctors need to understand immigrants’ traditional healing practices
Doctors and nurses across Maine not only need interpreters, but they also need to be informed of the traditional systems of healing to create a more inclusive and culturally sensitive health care system. For three years I worked as a certified interpreter in the Maine health care system and I have observed a disconnect between […]
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Mainewhile: You can’t fix the world, but every act of love counts
My old horse, Little Henry, has had a fall. I don’t want to alarm you – he’s going to be OK, but for a while there, things looked pretty bleak. Henry is a funny old thing. Born and bred down in Florida to be a racehorse, his bloodlines are pretty impressive – he traces back […]
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Mainewhile: State needs more progress on dental care coverage
I haven’t conducted a formal poll or anything, but I’m willing to bet that a quite a few of us made at least a few New Year’s resolutions that center on health. Maybe we want to eat better or walk more or do yoga. Maybe we are resolving to get better sleep or reduce the […]
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Life Unwound: Let yourself be drawn by what you love
New Year’s resolutions. Ugh. Do you make up rules that you break within days, hours or minutes? “I will not eat sugar, all year, or maybe never, starting now.” It lasts until you crave, or hunger or question, “Who created this stupid rule?” It happens to everyone, I assume, at some point, that moment when […]