LEWISTON — For more than a decade starting in 1959, a Lewiston factory looked something like a Christmas workshop as it churned out millions of brightly colored ornaments. Paragon Glass Works, one of the first companies to move into the city’s industrial park, produced an astonishing array of glass balls. Many of them were pretty […]

“Now let us welcome the New Year. Full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Pilke  We snuggle up into the cold and snow of Old Man Winter. Open the door. Let the New Year and January in. Life stretches before us. We drop the old that we may meet the new.  We are […]

Once upon a time long ago, when unicorns inhabited the forests and dragons ruled the skies, two water nymphs, Imani and Kira, lived in a clear river not far from the ocean. They were sisters and spent their days frolicking in the water with the other nymphs and tending water lilies that grew near the […]

The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Dec. 30, 2018: FICTION                   1. The Reckoning John Grisham A decorated World War II veteran shoots and kills a pastor inside a Mississippi church. 2. Fire & Blood George R.R. Martin Set 300 years […]