DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Can you recommend any easy-to-use products for video calling? I live in a different state from my mother, who’s now 78, and would like to see her more often. But mom doesn’t have a computer or a smartphone for video chatting and she’s intimidated with technology. — Living Afar DEAR LIVING: If […]
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Ex-Etiquette: Cellphone battle breaking all the rules
Q: I bought a cellphone for my oldest son about a year ago. I pay the bill. When my kids go to their dad’s, he takes away the phone and tightly controls how often the kids can call me. The kids are supposed to have “unlimited and unrestricted phone access” to each parent. My ex […]
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Maple madness
The wildly popular, ever-growing Maine Maple Sunday offers a sweet escape next week.
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Maine Gardener: Hope for the clematis-impaired
Many people hesitate to grow clematis, believing they are too finicky for the casual gardener. Cindy Tibbetts of Hummingbird Farm in Turner believes that anyone can grow clematis, and she wants to prove it. Just follow her instructions, and you will have a vigorous flowering vine that will live and prosper for 100 years or […]
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Review: Cast members of ‘Marigolds’ give glowing first-night performances
In an oft-quoted passage, Tolstoy wrote “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” But to write about unhappy families, as so many playwrights have done, is to suggest points of common understanding, whether it’s only to recognize the truly tragic in life or to focus on things that may lead to some form […]
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Bill Nemitz: Samaritan’s voice touches victim – twice
Online reader comments don’t always make for the best reading. But then every once in a while, up pops something like this . . .
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Springing ahead in winter
Dallas Seavey may be the youngest race winner, but he plotted the race like a veteran.
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Allen Afield: In Maine, the economic impact of recreational fishing runs deep
A popular bumper sticker in Maine annoys me to no end, and it goes something like this: “Commercial fishing is more than sport.” According to a summary of a report in the fall-winter issue of Eddies, a magazine from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sports fishing generates $3.6 billion annually for the U.S. economy […]
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Skiing in Maine: A life inspired by mountain and mentors
Pleasant Mountain in Bridgton holds a very special place in my heart, and I’ve taken great joy in watching its metamorphosis at Shawnee Peak under the careful and inspired guidance of Chet Homer and Ed Rock. But for me, it’ll always be the place where I rode my first chairlift in 1955, and was fortunate […]
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Carey Kish: This ‘way’ is far from marginal
Right about now at the tail end of winter, most of us are looking for an excuse to get outside for a good walk, a chance to stretch the legs, breathe some fresh air and clear the mind. A walk along the ocean usually works for me, so on a sunny day recently I decided […]