Being emotionally 9 years old when you’re the president can get you — and the whole world — in trouble, but wanting a big, ‘Ben Hur’-type parade then becomes understandable, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Women with tattoo’s are everywhere
Once the province of sailors, pirates and professional wrestlers, body art adds a layer of expression to modern women demanding control of their bodies and appearance, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Say goodbye to plastic straws
While sharing a cherry vanilla phosphate using paper straws was once romantic, plastic straws have become anathema since one was found jammed up the nose of a sea turtle, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Demise of another historic institution
The closing of the Necco candy factory in Revere, Massachusetts, which had sweetened the lives of Americans through good times and bad for 171 years, provides cause for lament, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: An anniversary waltz through Waterville
To put 34 years as residents of Waterville in perspective, J.P. Devine writes about how he and She came back East in 1984.
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Perdido en America
The story of a migrant child’s days in detention reminds us that a child separated from his or her mother never forgets, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Where are you from?
When you may be down and out or just drifting on the high seas, it’s good to run into someone who is from the same place as you, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine MIFF Movie Review: ‘Memoir of War’
The film brings to life Marguerite Duras’ diaries of life under the German occupation in Paris with a penetrating look into the souls of the waiting, J.P. Devine writes.
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J.P. Devine: Dealing with flies in summer heat
Instead of a messy death, entrapment between screen and window is the preferred method J.P. employs, despite what his younger daughter says.
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J.P. Devine: Found and lost, a memory
Separated by time and distance and a lack of fingertip tech to search the universe, J.P. Devine rediscovers a friend online, a fellow corner boy from his Hollywood days.