I am a movement artist, a mom and an advocate, and I recently had the opportunity to speak with Terrence Real, the author of “I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression,” about some parenting challenges we have been facing. I wanted to pass forward what I learned with […]

Former President Donald Trump’s speech on June 5, while largely ignored by media outlets, was another in a series of nihilist, self-obsessed rants about a “Third World country election like we’ve never seen before.” An out-and-out assault on the integrity of American democracy. A washed-up, soon-to-be-indicted has-been continues to wreak havoc, feed a hungry conspiracy […]

My parents were born in 1914. Before they were age 10, Mussolini snuffed out democracy in Italy. In my parents’ teens, Stalin and Hitler crushed dissent in Russia and Germany. Salazar and Franco did the same in Portugal and Spain. Shortly after their 25th birthdays, the UK declared war with Germany. My father volunteered as […]

A headline on a Washington Post news story in the June 8 Press Herald (Page A2) states “Atmospheric carbon dioxide reaches highest levels in 63 years.” This statement is open to misinterpretation: It suggests that carbon dioxide, or CO2, levels prior to 63 years ago might have been higher than now. In fact, the opposite […]

One of the more subtle elements of the white supremacy in which we white folks were raised is the privilege to insist on politeness from those who are screaming in pain. We have been taught that we have the right to make others be nice to us, in order for them to be heard by […]

The Rose Slate sounded fabulous. An inspiring group of progressive women charting a new course in local politics. I encouraged my family to vote for every member of the Rose Slate. I was overjoyed with the election results. Then I picked up Thursday’s paper and felt queasy. One member of the Rose Slate tweeted a […]

Hearing the rhythmic chant of a whip-poor-will drifting from the woods of western Maine ignited my ecological curiosity and passion for conservation. These birds, once notable for their widespread nature, have declined such that I hadn’t encountered one in my nearly two decades of rambling the Maine woods. That encounter led me to found the […]

In his letter Wednesday, Josh Teel stated that “power in Maine … is currently reliable” (June 9, Page A10). He couldn’t be more wrong. The U.S. Energy Information Administration tracks power outages across the nation. For 2017, Maine was dead last in reliability; in 2018, Maine was fifth from the bottom (in the bottom 10 […]