Not sure we should be politically concerned about how hard Ann Romney worked at home raising children but I will add I was lucky enough 60 years ago to be a stay at home mom of five children. It goes without saying that moms like she and I worked hard cleaning house, cooking, disciplining and […]

I don’t often get disturbed enough to comment on editorials or letters to the editor, having more than enough opportunity in my professional life. The discussion about the Affordable Health Care Act and “mandatory” health insurance coverage suggests the success of some powerful interests in defending their turf. My grandfather was an Abe Lincoln Republican […]

When Dr. Donaldson Koons, chairman of the geology department at Colby College and secretary of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection, said to me back in 1972, “Did you really write this?” I was shocked. He was holding the manuscript of what would become my first book, “Polluted Paradise” (published in 1973), and I’d nervously asked […]