My father would have been 90 had he lived just four more days, but in the end he had nothing left. One more breath, one more heartbeat, let alone one more day, was just not possible. He expired on Feb. 6 with my brothers and me at his bedside. Dad was a good man, in […]

We see each other so rarely, you and I. If you’re reading this, you’re probably in a waiting room. Or maybe you’re eating a meal alone, or killing time while your child’s extracurricular activity ends. Informal polling indicates that most of you are intermittent readers, as likely to recollect something I wrote last summer as […]

Orlando Delogu in his “Policy Wonk” column took Gov. Paul LePage to task for his “refusal to allow Maine to participate in the Affordable Care Act.” The Wonk further states that LePage has cut 70,000 low-income Mainers off from the benefits of health insurance. I tend not to read opinion columns because the writers are […]