I was surprised when a friend, who had been reading my guest columns, suggested that I was a very wordy person, and seemed to love using as many words as possible. My first thought was that he was criticizing me for using too many words, and my second thought was that he was complimenting me […]

The Brick Store Museum holds more than 30,000 pieces of archival material written by historic Kennebunkers. A Voice from the Past shares from the collection. Cynthia Walker, executive director This week’s entry is from historic Town Clerk Andrew Walker, who kept a detailed diary for decades about his observations of people in town. The original […]

My wife and I recently purchased one of those robot vacuum cleaners. The kind that scuttles around the floor like a mechanical crab. We named it Klara, for the “artificial friend” in Kazuo Ishiguro’s thought-provoking, poignant and disturbing new novel “Klara and the Sun.” Artificial friends are companion robots for lonely, alienated children of the […]

As many of you know, I’ve been coaching football at Kennebunk High School for a long time now. In fact, 1978 was my first year coaching, just six years after Title IX took effect. I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of student-athletes and seen many of them grow over the years, even […]

If there’s anything a golf ball, just out of the shiny new factory package, longs and lusts for, it’s to be sitting on the highly manicured and tickly surface of a golf green, waiting for a gentle nudge or bump, to send it skimming over the roller-coaster surface toward the hole, and jump in, just […]