I’ll share a secret with you. When you lose your father at age 9 you spend the rest of your life — I mean every day, month and year of it — searching for someone to take his place. And I’m here this year, a nonagenarian father with two girls lucky enough to have one, […]
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Oakland man extends kindness to students from afar
Gil Roy has hosted more than two-dozen foreign exchange students from around the world in the last 14 years and has two more coming this summer, Amy Calder writes.
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Blue Jean’ script has problems, writes J.P. Devine
Life is softer for LGBT people in the UK now than it was in the ’80s in “Blue Jean,” when Margaret Thatcher initiated “Section 28.” Now, as the clouds thin, we find ourselves in a small, dreary school in Newcastle upon Tyne, where our young Jean, a gay physical education teacher, is a basketball coach. […]
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Adopting a ‘Gotta fly!’ slogan
Taking inspiration from her dog, Liz Soares relishes the chances to be active and strong even in older age.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: There’s always something
J.P. Devine mulls an expression that was ingrained in his life by his mother, who used it like a wash cloth or toothbrush.
Posted inAmy Calder, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: One man’s kind gesture has uplifting effect
Debra Brown’s opinion of people changed recently when Manny Price found her wallet in a Waterville parking lot, with a few hundred dollars inside, and took the time to return it to her, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Made in Italy’ about father-son conflicts
Geez, don’t you kinda want to go live in Tuscany? It’s probably one of the most glorious spots Italy offers. You’ve sat through movies filmed in Tuscany. More than 30 films have been shot in one of Italy’s most beautiful and overused regions. You could be watching beautiful movie stars of multiple countries, sipping wine […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Lilac and all
A piece of lilac history has awakened floral memories Dana Wilde has from long ago.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Everything but the kitchen sink
Mulling mountains of debris, J.P. Devine recalls the cast-away collectables of years past.