Like so many people today, I have lived a transient life. I was born in Northern California amid the Giant Sequoias, from age 11 through my adolescence raised in the San Francisco Bay Area with its fog, sunshine and bridges, into adulthood up against the mountains that contain the greater Los Angeles basin with its […]

Today Cabin Fever Saturday, 4 to 7 p.m., with board games, cards and free potluck supper. Bring food to share or games to play. Children are welcome. Snow date is Feb. 11, St. Stephen the Martyr Church, 424 Sokokis Trail, Route 5, Waterboro. Call 247-6458 or 727-3228 with the number of people attending. Today and […]

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. – School board members in Jackson County have decided not to ban a man known as the “Bible Man” from holding monthly meetings with elementary school children. The board took up the matter this week in response to complaints that religious assemblies were being held during the school day. The Wisconsin-based Freedom from […]

INDIANAPOLIS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana’s top lawyer says that a pending bill that would allow schools to teach creationism in science classes clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and invites legal challenges. U.S. Supreme Court precedents “going back many years” have established the unconstitutionality of teaching creationism in public schools, Ken Falk […]

Have you ever wondered what your holiday seasons might be like as you age — or even what they might be like if you get to be what the pundits call “old-old” (over 85)? I got a look at what they actually are like for one of my very favorite people in the whole world […]

Today Mass of generational healing, 2 p.m., led by Father John Bacevicius, OFM, at the Franciscan Monastery, 20 Beach Ave., Kennebunkport. Community Closet, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., free clothing, including infant and children’s items, are available to all families with children. Second Congregational Church of Warren. Donations, including children’s winter clothing, are also needed. […]

Falling in love leads a young cleric to realize he can’t give his whole life to the Catholic Church.