After two or three days of eating poorly, all it takes to feel better again is to consume a hot Maine potato, mashed, dabbed with butter and salt-and-peppered, Amy Calder writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Slow Horses’ finale one nail-biting scene after another, J.P. Devine writes
The fifth and finale episode of “Slow Horses,” titled “Old Scores,” does not disappoint. The show, based on Mick Herron’s “Dead Lions,” gives us in this last hour, “Code September” and the “Cicadas,” (long sleeping and forgotten Russian spies) for an operation that will bring to mind 9/11. I will tell you no more except […]
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Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Glimpses of Mercury
The rare times we can see Mercury in the night sky are reminders of the planet’s mysterious travels in space, like dreams that appear just before waking, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Yellowstone’ returns with new governor, pack of wolves in pinstripe suits
“One Hundred Years is Nothing,” Season 5, episode 1.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: ‘Devastation visible everywhere’
Covering the ice storm of 1998 in the Waterville area seemed like being a war zone, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Tweaking the inner clock
Readjusting her relationship with time, Liz Soares ponders the luxury of retirement and the changing seasons of our lives.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
On the Edge: The ice Maine cometh
Columnist J.P. Devine recalls the exact moment everything stopped and the ice storm forced them to seek shelter.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: What just happened?
Surrounded by emptiness after Christmas, J.P. Devine ponders an aging ornament and what’s lasting in his own life.