In these dark days of the pandemic and political wars, a light limerick and a flicker of hope can light the way forward, J.P. Devine writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Amy Calder: Get vaccinated? No question.
Amy Calder urges even those who do not believe a COVID-19 vaccination will save their own lives to take it for those who do.
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Flight Attendant’
Adventures of good time girl end with worst flight, date and nightmare.
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Dana Wilde: Poppop’s got a brand new jeejah
It’s hard to remember what life was like before syntactic devices, but it existed, writes Dana Wilde.
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J.P. Devine: The piano and me
Playing Cole Porter’s “Every time We Say Goodbye” on the ivory keys has J.P. Devine hopeful that it’s the start of a glorious New Year.
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Dana Wilde: A winter barometer
Winter is changing, and so are Mainers as we come to grips with that reality, Dana Wilde writes.
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘A Very Murray Christmas’
Good old Bill Murray film sometimes funny, packed with wonderful stars.
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J.P. Devine: The lady in white
This Christmas, as thousands of nurses and doctors in blue scrubs hold the hands of the millions of the dying, J.P. Devine is thinking of his mother in her starched white dress and cap, bringing a cupcake home.
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Amy Calder: Pursuing deferred dreams
A Waterville mother who had dropped out of school at 14 decided to enroll in adult education this year after struggling to help her two young daughters learn from home during the coronavirus pandemic.