Facts from this summer indicate the roulette wheel ball is slowing down and getting ready to land just about anywhere but a lucky number for us, Dana Wilde writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Emily Higginbotham, Local & State
Marathon movie experience at Maine International Film Festival
The 10 days served as a reminder of how special it is just going to the theater, Emily Higginbotham writes.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Registered nurse offers hope to sufferers of postpartum depression
Amanda Brown has made the most of her own experience to help others deal with postpartum anxiety and depression.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
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.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State
Liz Soares: Old photos trace family history, tale of survival
Looking through photographic treasures is a reminder of good and bad times and the will of a family to carry on, Liz Soares writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State
Amy Calder: Historian keeps memories of WWI soldiers from Skowhegan alive
Former high school history teacher David Harville details the stories of two Skowhegan men who fought and died in the Battle of Chateau-Thierry in France, one of the first actions of the American Expeditionary Force.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
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.
Posted inCommunity News, Film, J.P. Devine, Lifestyle, Maine International Film Festival, Movies
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.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: Billions and billions of flowers
A flower is not a star, yet at some point in our dreams and at the edge of reality they cross paths and the two become one, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
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.