Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: Robes for Christmas … really?
The notion of owning robes or pajamas was a foreign concept to J.P. Devine until he met She, an actress of great style and manners.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: We fretted over Thurston, not that it mattered to him
Thurston, a 4-year-old feline, didn’t show much gratitude after his owners sought the care of a vet for a troubling infection, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
J.P. Devine: Larry David’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ returns
Larry is back. Not Larry Fine of the Three Stooges, but Larry David of “Seinfeld” fame, with his 11th season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Are we happy? We’ve waited a long time for this, right? And while we waited, the sky fell in on us with a virus out of China, one that Marco Polo […]
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: ‘You’ll see’
Nearly 40 years after arriving in Maine, J.P. Devine still doesn’t consider himself a Mainer and is still wondering when it will snow.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Morning Sentinel
Amy Calder: Beware the ghosts and goblins on a Halloween far different from years past
Decades ago, costumes and many other things were far simpler in Skowhegan, when children took to the streets with their pillowcases to collect candy, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Dana Wilde: Inside Indian summer
Those transparently beautiful autumn days with comfortable weather are a sort of grace period increasingly receding, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: A work of art
The work of cutting hair has never seem so consequential as it has during the pandemic, J.P. Devine writes.