Category: Columns

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Now that winter is (mostly) behind us, we can again start making plans without looking at the weather report. The winter season is perhaps the most difficult for us because the drive into town is not always easy or assured.

Spring is here! There’s no better way to welcome warmer weather and new beginnings than with a refreshing and colorful dish: watermelon radish salad!

The movie industry is abuzz over the seven Oscars won by the film “Oppenheimer.” Fifty years ago, a Dustin Hoffman classic, “The Graduate,” also snared seven Oscars.

It was by happenstance, really. We were at a holiday dinner and I was introduced to another guest. She was seated at my table and we proceeded to have a lovely conversation

Not too long ago, a rare bird visited Maine and caused a lot of excitement. The bird, a Steller’s sea eagle, is typically found in Asia and must have been using up its travel points to see other parts of the world, which included a stopover in Georgetown.

In sixth grade, my friends and I volunteered to clean the attic of our friend Kristin’s parents’ garage so we could have a clubhouse. We pushed and swallowed years of dust to carve out a meeting space.

My world has gotten a whole lot noisier. Some routine happenings are downright deafening and lots of things that were silent are no longer.

Yesterday I was at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. I was picking up a book for myself and, as is often my routine, I wandered into the new releases room.

Whether it’s a casual dinner or a special occasion, my go-to recipe for salmon offers an impressive entree for yourself or for your guests.

It’s March. Daylight saving time returns and the first day of spring is coming. The return of longer days and warmer weather is always welcome in Maine. One date I noticed on my calendar is March 9. It is National Crabmeat Day!

We have had another up-and-down winter, with plenty of wind and record tides bedeviling coastal landowners. Temperatures have bounced around and we have experienced heavy rains. Snow has been limited, with a dusting in early December and just a few inches in January and February.

The sign says, “Eat here or we’ll both starve.” It’s been there as long as I can remember, a beacon to pin my location on the map and tell me if I’m coming from or going to my childhood home.

Though his trial has not started yet, I am looking forward to learning why he thought he could get away with it. Did he think he was untouchable because he is rich and famous? Because he once carried a “license to kill”?

The roads are wonderfully quiet with winter traffic now. Some days I can walk to the post office and back, at noon, without having a single vehicle drive by.

A few years ago, a relative from out of state visited me. While driving down Cundy’s Harbor Road, he came upon a line of cars that had stopped because a tree had fallen.

From a kitchen tucked away in the heart of Harpswell, I’m excited to share my recipes with you! I recently changed my major from civil engineering to culinary arts in pursuit of my dream to work in the culinary industry, and possibly open my own bakery someday.

It’s February and that means Valentine’s Day, the original share-the-love event. One immediately thinks of someone in their life that they love. When I was a child in elementary school, my mother would buy a box of inexpensive valentine cards to “send” to classmates.

Anyone who’s dating, or has ever dated, has attended an early February strategy session. Important questions must be answered. Contingencies and tactics developed. What does it mean if you’re invited to Valentine’s Day dinner? What does it mean if the restaurant is expensive or has a holiday prix fixe?

We get calls all the time from low-life scammers who have just enough of our information to start a conversation, but not enough to separate us from our common sense. I closed down an email address when it started delivering 50-plus scam emails a day.