I am working on busy. The I-can’t-stop, I-am-driven, there-is-a-motor-inside-me-and-it runs-on-high-gear kind of busy. Jump in, get to work, clean, cook, scoot to Shaw’s for toilet paper, get to the dump before it closes, and by the way, sweep-the-deck kind of busy. Frenzied hustle and bustle. Do it now. Get it done. Busy tells me that […]

JERUSALEM – Israelis ushered in the holiest day of the Jewish calendar at sundown Friday as nearly the entire country ground to a halt for Yom Kippur, Judaism’s day of atonement, observed with a 25-hour fast and long prayers. Jews traditionally spend the solemn day fasting and asking God for forgiveness at intense prayer services […]

HAMBURG, N.Y. – A Muslim advocacy group is asking Walmart to rehire a worker who posted derogatory comments about Muslim customers on Facebook and was fired last week. Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council On American-Islamic Relations, said Friday that the group had accepted Terrance Earsing’s apology and, in a letter to Walmart U.S. President […]

Saturday E-waste day, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., free disposal of electronic items offered by Catholic Charities and held at Holy Family Church, 66 North Ave., Sanford. Any usable items will be sold at the thrift shop and other items will be recycled. Holistic mystic fair, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with healers, spiritualists, shamans, […]

My back deck is a sometimes soul laboratory. Ostensibly, I may have on a quiet morning taken myself there with a book. I assure you, though, that these days my book is often just a cover. Having lived into my ninth decade, I find myself frequently interrogating that swirling amalgam of mind-stuff that has been […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Albert Mohler was just 33 years old when he took over as president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., in 1993. Since then, Mohler has restored the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship school to more conservative beliefs even though it was at the cost of getting rid of some faculty. He […]

Saturday Annual Haiti yard sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., to benefit the school at Morne Rouge. Held on the lawn at Deering High School, 370 Stevens Ave., Portland. To donate items, call 773-6562. Prayer service and adoration, in conjunction with Pope Francis’ call for a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, […]