I’ve got three words for you: Giant. Parachuting. Spiders. Yes, yes my friends, to whoever carelessly said out loud, “This year could not get any weirder,” I would ask you to stop speaking. Challenge not the gods of irony for lo, you have brought down upon us massive spiders with striped legs and brightly colored […]
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Mainewhile: The many moving parts in the Ukraine invasion
Pick an image, any image, coming out of Ukraine right now and it will break your heart. People evacuating the city with their pets, young couples preparing to defend their homes, the soldier who gave his life to detonate a bridge, the older woman who defied invading Russian soldiers. Heartbreaking, every one. If, for some […]
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Mainewhile: Why can’t we take a spin with style?
Presidents Day is a strange holiday. It began as a day to commemorate George Washington and Abraham Lincoln but seems to be mostly about sales and big bargains. Ads, flyers, giant banners flapping in the wind. All the stores join the action, but the big daddy, the apex predator if you will, is undoubtedly the […]
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Mainewhile: Historic Black designers knew how to dress for success
I have a guilty secret. This isn’t something I admit too often – and it certainly isn’t something you’d guess by looking at me – but I have an absolute weakness for fashion. My one and only request at Christmas was the book “How to Read a Dress.” I had two copies under the tree. To […]
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Mainewhile: Celebrating the shout of joy that was Ashley Bryan
If you, like me, have ever had the great good fortune to spend even so much as a single afternoon out on Cranberry Island, then the odds are very high that you, like me, had the great good fortune to be invited into the home of Ashley Bryan. Because that is what Ashley did. He […]
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Mainewhile: Inventor of airplane car deserves plenty of props this month
Hello, February. Welcome! February is a funny month. It is short and cold, and everyone starts yearning for spring even though it’s really still a good way off. Worse, we all have to suffer through Valentine’s Day smack dab in the middle of the month. Ugh. On the upside, thanks to February also being the […]
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Mainewhile: The future for Maine farms could include happy trails and horses
Small family farms are a huge part of what makes Maine special. Farms provide jobs, drive local economies, maintain cultural connections and keep land open. More importantly, last year when the supply chain broke down and supermarket shelves were empty, our small farms literally kept us fed. Despite all this, they’re in trouble. A recent […]
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Mainewhile: Goldfish experiment is food for thought
I had planned to write this week about the new guidance on masks and the omicron variant. I think it is positively astounding how fast scientific research is moving and tracking the virus as it morphs and changes – and knowledge is power, right? Given that the data is pretty clear that this variant requires […]
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Mainewhile: Honor Betty White by taking up challenge in her name
Betty White, Betty White, amazing Betty White. At half her age, I wish I was even one quarter as cool. With her death, the internet, in one of those all-too-rare moments when it actually proves to be a worthwhile tool of goodness, quickly spawned the idea of The Betty White Challenge. Although I quite recently […]
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Mainewhile: Seeing the writing on the wall at the U.S. Postal Service
I think we can all agree that 2021 was a challenging year. Unlike the jubilant parties of New Year’s past, this year seemed to be less of a celebration and more of a collective sigh of relief that it is over. I know at our house, we kept it low-key, opting for board games, creating […]