Behind our phones, tablets and laptops, we are living a life once-removed from the physical, feeling world, Emily Higginbotham writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, News
At Waterville riverfront park, painful pasts drive hope for better times
Patrick Lavoie and others say they look out for each other and the tranquility of the Waterville park, Amy Calder writes.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
The old man, the Zika and the Ixodes scapularis
Abandoning his ruminations on youth when climate change forced a move to Maine, JP Devine pens an unlikely message of hope.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
Money morality and the Earth
For some, protecting air and water just costs too much money, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Sometimes you can go home
Whitcomb Rummel Jr. recreates his memories growing up in Waterville in a prize-winning screenplay, writes Amy Calder.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
She and FLOTUS on the move
Forever and ever, permanently, 100 percent, She is retiring from teaching and will be back home as surely as FLOTUS takes up residence with POTUS in the White House, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Shades of Watergate in Trump-Russia investigation
Trump’s woes cannot be compared to Nixon’s; they are different kettles of stinky fish, writes Liz Soares.
Posted inColumns, Emily Higginbotham
Remembering my father’s tears
It’s important to have sensitive male role models in a society that’s plagued by toxic masculinity, writes Emily Higginbotham.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, News
In Waterville plaque mystery, a dormant revelation of thievery
The saga of the Thayer Memorial Bridge plaque has taken another twist now that a man who grew up in the neighborhood has come forward with a long-held memory of the kid who stole the plaque, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, News
And this is how it ends
His next and last book, a memoir — which requires honesty — needs a title change, J.P. Devine writes.