Every so often, there is something or other I really want to write about, but I don’t. Maybe because it seems silly, maybe because I don’t know if anyone else will care, maybe because it feels overwhelming. I’ve had a few of those recently. Sometimes though, things align so perfectly a person just can’t ignore […]
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Mainewhile: Start a new Valentine’s Day tradition
Well. At least it’s over, yeah? We can all collectively move on from the angst, the suspense, the worry. Oh. Oh no, I didn’t mean the impeachment trial. That, I suspect, we will live with for a while yet. I meant Valentine’s Day, the most dreaded of holidays on the annual calendar. OK, OK, maybe […]
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Mainewhile: Super Bowl pre-game a sonnet to righting wrongs
Super Bowl Sunday! Yes, once again in keeping with our finest traditions, this past Sunday night our nation gathered around the television to watch football, judge commercials and eat nachos. Or at least that’s how we played it at our house. Obviously, as with every little thing in all our lives this year, it was […]
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Mainewhile: People of color owed debt of gratitude
Welcome February, the month we set aside to celebrate, among other things, Black history. This is the month that posters go up with quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., units are taught about Frederick Douglass and conversations are had about the remarkable Harriet Tubman. With good cause. Legal slavery is, historically speaking, still recent. What’s […]
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Letter: Martin hit the mark, Balentine missed it
The Jan. 14 opinion page was striking in the contrast between Heather Martin’s plea for the revival of truth-telling (“Make truth-telling great again”) and John Balentine’s insistence on ignoring this plea by publishing 11 of his favorite lies from the last four years (“Trump’s legacy”). No, John, poor people are not relieved because they no […]
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Mainewhile: Make truth-telling great again
Well. I chose a heck of a time to give up outrage, huh? I mean, giving up outrage for New Year’s and then having the week we had is like giving up sugar only to have a French patisserie open up next door. Because truly, the events of the past week, described by many (including […]
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Mainewhile: Let go of outrage
There is something so fantastic, so inspiring about the start of a new year. I mean, I know that in purely scientific terms, Jan. 1st is just another day. But it doesn’t feel that way. It feels like the moment for fresh starts, new beginnings, like the whole world is a blank slate just waiting […]
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Mainewhile: And then there’s the pie
Hey everyone, how were your holidays? I am willing to bet they were a bit weird, probably not at all the way they usually are, or the way you wanted. I missed my family, I missed the board games. I even missed the ritual of trying to get comfortable at night in the near-tropical heat […]
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Mainewhile: Hanukkah could include a new miracle
Happy Hanukkah to all of you who will be celebrating the holiday. Because this festival of dedication runs in accordance with a calendar different from the Roman one we use to chart our Monday through Sunday schedules, the exact start and stop dates for this eight-night-long celebration change from year to year. This year, Hanukkah […]
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Mainewhile: Secretary of State Matt Dunlap leaves big shoes to fill
Maine is about to get a new secretary of state. This is a big deal. Secretaries of state matter. If you’ve been watching the national news, you’ve probably gained a new appreciation for the job. Brad Raffensperger, the Republican Secretary of State in Georgia, has been rather heroically holding the line on truth down there, […]