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PublishedApril 24, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Mining bees and the beginning of spring
After a strangely disrupted winter, the routine signs of life returning this month are reassuring that some kind of conventional order persists, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedApril 24, 2024
There are a lot of fallen pine cones in Maine right now. Here’s why.
A University of Maine professor explains the factors contributing to an abundance of eastern white pine cones that grew on trees last fall and dropped to the ground over the past few months.
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PublishedApril 21, 2024
On the Edge: Ms. Kramer and me
Recalling that he has been “one” with birds ever since childhood, J.P. Devine ponders how eventually every bird flies away.
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PublishedApril 17, 2024
Thinking Things Through: We need a handbook to navigate health care
Recent battles over prescriptions have led to eye-opening frustrations with the American medical system, Liz Soares writes.
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PublishedApril 11, 2024
On the Edge: One dish, one fork and She
After Katherine Joly Devine passes, J.P. Devine is showing her how to follow the evening star home to him.
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PublishedApril 10, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: An apparition of waxwings
Bohemian waxwings recently moved in on Dana’s Wilde’s space-time, representing a spirit of a moment.
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
On the Edge: Out of the past
As his wife receives care in the hospital, J.P. Devine ponders how Kay saw a bright light long ago that now shines down upon present day circumstances.
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PublishedApril 4, 2024
In the Field: Ode to the peavey
Named after a Maine inventor, the 5-foot wooden lever tool revolutionized logging in North America and has forged a reputation that has stood the test of time, Ron Joseph writes.
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PublishedApril 3, 2024
Thinking Things Through: Confronting the possibility of cancer
Even as Princess Kate recently announced she was undergoing cancer treatment, Liz Soares recounts her own ordeal testing for thyroid cancer.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2024
On the Edge: What’s a typewriter?
J.P. Devine writes a love letter to what Tom Hanks called ‘brilliant combinations of art and engineering.’
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