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 […]

I’m fast approaching the decade of life where people start dropping dead with some frequency. Both my parents died in this decade. With that sobering thought in the back of my mind, I make well-intentioned efforts to try and stay physically healthy, like taking daily walks (weather permitting) and hitting the weight room two or […]

Maine’s greatest strength has always been our unique heritage and strength of character. It’s a truth that shines bright across our state and in the nearly 10 percent of Maine people who answered the call to serve our country. Since my time as governor, meeting our solemn commitment to veterans has been among my most […]

George said there had been a lot of talk about the Russians, the Ukrainians and the Land of the Onion Domes, and he had just seen President Joe Biden laying a wreath in honor of Ukrainian soldiers who had fallen in defense of their country, right there in Kyiv in front of a church with […]

I’ve seen the good that career and technical education does for our kids as they prepare for the real world. In today’s rapidly changing job market, it’s more important than ever for Maine students to gain relevant and practical skills to prepare for their future careers. Career and technical eduction provides students with hands-on training […]