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PublishedNovember 27, 2011
J.P. DEVINE, ON THE EDGE: That’s amore!
Let's talk about pizza. But first, let's see a show of hands. Who wants to be the first in Maine to call President Barack Obama and Congress and tell them that the tomato is not a vegetable, it's a fruit?
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PublishedNovember 20, 2011
ON THE EDGE: Wash, rinse, repeat
I was a grown man before I discovered that I had obsessive compulsive disorder. (Watch everyone cross the street now when they see me coming.)
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PublishedNovember 13, 2011
J.P. DEVINE: Broken totems? Pass them on
On the table before me, I have four broken rosary beads, six funeral crucifixes, two Blessed Mothers, one with a broken head and one without an arm, and Jesus without an eye. Don't ask. It's a long story. The point is, what to do with all of this stuff? I'm not even a practicing Catholic anymore. Another long story.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2011
ON THE EDGE: A mustache for a good cause
Herman Cain will never be elected President of the United States. It's not his 9-9-9 pitch or his politics, it's his mustache. Has anyone really noticed that thin crawl of hair on his upper lip? It raises the question: Who, in 2011 would elect a man to the highest office who has a mustache when no one since William Howard Taft has had one? Is it really a no-no?
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
ON THE EDGE: Women touched by the fog
She was a tall girl, a champion swimmer, beautiful in a subtle Black Irish way.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
J.P. DEVINE: An eye for detail
She was coming right at me. She was required to wait. She did not. She ran her red light and came directly at me.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Katherine and J.P. Devine
BELGRADE LAKES -- Katherine and J.P. Devine celebrated the 50th anniversary of their wedding, Oct. 2nd, with their good friends, Joe and Renee Jabar and family on Great Pond in Belgrade Lakes, and at their favorite restaurant in Boston.
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
Political potatoes are food for thought
My father liked sauerkraut on his. Uncle Pete preferred horseradish. My brother Jug ate the whole thing, skin and all, as I do. When cooking them as an adult, he rubbed the skins in olive oil and a touch of salt. That’s fine dining. She, who loves butter, won’t touch one without it. I prefer […]
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
Political potatoes: Food for thought
My father liked sauerkraut on his. Uncle Pete preferred horseradish. My brother Jug ate the whole thing, skin and all, as I do.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
J.P. DEVINE: What’s with the waving?
I hate mail like this. It seems as we age, no matter how gracefully or slowly, there is a network out there that has us pegged.
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