April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time when we strive to raise awareness about sexual assault and the impact it has on survivors, their loved ones and our communities. I wanted to use this space to help bring awareness to this issue and to share some of the progress we are making in terms […]

This breakfast receipt is direct from the files of The AmaChewers Cooking School, and here by requests from friends who have moved away since spending time getting to know me, and realizing they have better things to do. They move on, but remember the Cheese Egg Hill. A slice of bread, white or otherwise or […]

You could call me a chatterbox. Not in the traditional sense, like a blabbermouth (or a quidnunc, one of my favorite words). More in the sense that I write a lot. At one point in my life I was writing so many newspaper columns that a friend of mine suggested I was the human equivalent […]

History Repeats? Repeats what? Well, it repeats patterns, but not the details. The city of Moscow is a good example. First written mention is in year 1147 as a small village situated on the Moscow River, which flows into the much larger Volga River. About 300 years after Kiyiv is first noted in The Russian […]

Let’s face it, Maine has a teacher shortage, and that problem has only been made worse over the last few years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Bangor Daily News, “more than 1,300 teachers, education technicians, administrators and other educators in Maine left their jobs, and more than half of them did so […]