Sharing food goes back to the beginning of time. As we celebrate the holidays, most of us have special dishes that we look forward to devouring, whether it be Aunt Lucy’s pecan pie or Grandma’s roasted turkey and dressing. Food is a fun and traditional way to celebrate with friends, and to count our many […]
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Mainewhile: Lessons learned from laryngitis
It has been an interesting two weeks, folks. I worked late the day before Thanksgiving in order to enjoy the time with my family, free from any thoughts of work, and I felt just dandy. Then, true to that old maxim about our bodies interpreting a vacation as a green light to go ahead and […]
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Here’s Something: Golden age of home delivery is now
We are living in the golden age of home delivery. This time of year especially, delivery trucks are frequent visitors to our neighborhoods, delivering those Christmas shopping deals for online buyers. These modern-day Santa’s helpers include perennial delivery stalwarts: Big Brown, as the United Parcel Service is affectionately called, FedEx and the granddaddy of all […]
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Universal Notebook: Just another snow job
Trump supporters like to call liberals “snowflakes,” suggesting that we are too sensitive and fragile. We in turn call them “deplorables,” because they are so callous and insensitive. As the first snow fell last week, I was reminded that there really are a lot of snowflakes in Maine, by which I mean people too young […]
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Over Easy: Climate change by any other name …
There is little that is humorous about climate change, unless it’s fantasizing about what it would mean in a day to day way. Like how funny would it be to be playing golf in December at the Sugarloaf Golf and Country Club, on the land that used to be a ski resort back in the […]
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Here’s Something: Help Gov. Janet save the planet
Gov. Janet Mills is going to need Mainers’ help if she is to achieve her plan to make Maine carbon neutral by 2045. It’s time to think big because we have only nine years, maybe 12, to reverse the curse of global warming. It’s time to not only think drastically but act that way, too. […]
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The Universal Notebook: Enjoying the collective unconscious
With any luck, this will be the last column based on my recent illness. As I look back over six months of hospitalization, operations and complications, what I find most interesting is the time I spent unconscious. The mind plays tricks on us. When Carolyn drove me to the hospital in Brunswick, I remember driving […]
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Life Unwound: Balancing grief and gratitude
People in my town leave the scenes of accidents. Neighbors in the nearest city fight over shelter sites. The opioid epidemic grows statewide. Mass shootings sweep the country. Climate despair goes global. Countries compete in the space race. When I expand outwardly from here to there, this to that, often I see only the mess […]
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Mainewhile: Owning the myth of Thanksgiving
I grew up in rural Massachusetts. Really rural. This was the Massachusetts of calendar pages. Still close enough to Boston that trips to the city were not uncommon, the landscape of my every day was all rolling fields, brilliant maples, white spired churches and old stone walls. It was the sort of town where no […]
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Letter: Balentine should come up with some valid facts
I am surprised, confused and indignant that the Forecaster continues to allow John Balentine to spout his conservative editorials. His latest diatribe against socialism (“Now more than ever, socialism’s evils need to be unveiled,” Nov. 13) is both simplistic and inaccurate in his examination of the nature of socialism. Balentine states that socialistic policies “choke […]