Searching local neighborhoods for crèches, J.P. Devine ponders the reason for the season as his search leads him to look at the faces human beings suffering and in need of mercy.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Rich Abrahamson: One man’s push to downsize helps Hartland woman expand her Christmas spirit
The Morning Sentinel’s Rich Abrahamson needed to unload his collection of Christmas blow molds, and Danielle Gould was happy to take them since it meant she could grow her own collection and continue to spread Christmas cheer.
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‘The Tender Bar’ coming-of-age drama with street comedy relief
In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir, directed with a loving hand by George Clooney, it seems clear that Ben Affleck may no longer have to hyphenate his name with Matt Damon. Methinks that’s over now. His role as the owner and tender of a Staten Island bar called “Dickens” may well be Ben’s […]
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‘The Bishop’s Wife’ a forbidden love story
“The Bishop’s Wife” (released Feb. 16, 1948), one of the prominent contenders for best Christmas movie of the century and certainly a film studded with three of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time, is clearly a a forbidden love story. Hold on to your string of pearls. Egad! You mean the story of how […]
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Backyard Naturalist: Earliest sunset before shortest day
Understanding the Earth’s orbit and spinning around the sun can be tricky, illustrating how appearances may well not be reality, Dana Wilde writes.
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On the Edge: The one about the shoes
When you live long enough, J.P. Devine writes, your pockets are full of Christmas stories like the shoe fund for actors who only have sneakers.
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Reporting Aside: Woman’s plight an example of psychiatric health care crisis in Maine
A clinical psychologist who’s treating a psychotic, suicidal woman with leukemia stuck for weeks in a hospital emergency department says the state must expand existing psychiatric resources or build new, Amy Calder writes.
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‘A Castle for Christmas’ something to brighten your tree
Oh my goodness and golly gee, June Allyson and Van Johnson are back, and just in time to save your Christmas Eve. Of course, it’s not really June Allyson and Van Johnson, who made six movies together, because they’re both on the “other side” in Hollywood Heaven watching over us. But if they were here, […]
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‘Don’t Look Up’ full of biggest stars, best talents
We meet Kate Dibiasky, a brilliant semi-nerdy astronomy grad student who spends her days looking up into space. One day, she accidentally spots a planet-killing comet the size of Russia, making a beeline for Earth. Oh sure, It’s Lisa Kudrow finally breaking out into a … Wait. That’s not Lisa Kudrow in a for-sure Lisa […]