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I’ve been thinking about the roads of this little town recently. We have a kid with a driving permit, so I have been riding shotgun, as she explores the back roads. I think driving her to school every morning over the last couple years, taking the...

On a cold Saturday evening in the beginning of December, a crowd gathers around a roaring fire on the beach. Huddled together, before the ocean and beneath the emerging stars, staring at the purpose-built fire- a hallmark of our species. We sing...

You can see it in the way the leaves just droop a bit, with splashes of color popping up amongst the green. Feel it in the cooler evenings and mornings. Hear it in the moans of the children in your life as they realize that they will be returning to...

As a teacher of painting I will sometimes assign a difficult text which induces a state of confusion in students. Confusion is a negative mood, and Karla McLaren writes of confusion that it requires one to “honor this time-out and stop looking outside yourself for answers.”

This past week the Bayshore Baptist congregation put on a Thanksgiving dinner for the community, inviting one and all to come, and delivering meals to those who couldn’t get out. That got me thinking of the story in The Year of Jubilo,...

Yesterday, a Texas rug customer, staying at the Spouter Inn, said it was 104 in Houston. I slept under a blanket last night and with windows wide open. Rush hour in front of my house consists of five or six pick-ups tearing down to catch the early...

Summer days start for me at sunrise on Lincolnville Beach, emptying the trash barrels, picking up butts, putting the place back in order for the day. It’s a job I love, and it turns out, so does my upstairs D-I-L, who took it over last year while I...

Richard Glock died early last Friday. As his four grown children said in the lovely message they posted on the LBB, “poetically, his passing came 12 years and one day from the date our mom, Joy, passed. . . although in true Richard style, he made...

BY ALEX LEADBEATER JAN 28, 2017 One of the most popular ways to measure how well-balanced a film is in terms of gender representation is the Bechdel Test. Named after Alison Bechdel, the comic artist who created it, it features three simple classifications that surprisingly few movies meet: the movie has to have (1) at least two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something besides a man. It’s not a perfect measure, but does work as a good metric to see how cinema in general is...