Long before Mother’s Day brunch, long before Hallmark, and long before it became seemly for tiny tots to buy their mothers diamond jewelry, Julia Ward Howe — she who also, ironically, wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” early in the Civil War, started the whole thing off, in 1870, with this […]

In the 1972 presidential election, President Richard Nixon drubbed Sen. George McGovern, but the ensuing Watergate scandal cast the Nixon campaign in the worst possible light. A post-election national survey asked voters which candidate they had supported. In several states McGovern had lost, the poll found a majority saying they had voted for him. In […]

This week, 69 years ago the war ended in Germany — a most memorable day for me and my family (we lived in Germany at the time) and for much of the world. People had ceased killing each other in Europe. My mother, my sisters and I were living upstairs in a large house which […]

A severe fall at my home required more than one ambulance ride, a stay at Mid Coast Hospital and a recovery at Horizons Living and Rehab Center. I want to thank so many of the nice people who’ve helped me along the way. And last but not least, my two daughters Lori Parkinson and Chris […]

When Jackie Sartoris asked me to be her Treasurer, I asked her what she stood for. We talked about her leadership on education, the environment, fiscal responsibility, and concerns as an elder law attorney for Maine’s growing elder population. I already knew about her 7 years of service on the Town Council, the important ideas […]

John Carroll of CMP seemed to speak for our intersts but he is actually under the control of a Spain-based global energy conglomerate. He spoke about old ladies eating cat food as he defended the corporate greed of his organization. That pretty much reveals the lack of empathy to us Mainers and our use of […]