I used to work at White Rock, you know. This was back in the early ’90s, a time that didn’t feel like the economy was a plate-glass window with a galaxy of tiny cracks in it. I was new to Lewiston and whether or not I had a place to stay depended on how well […]

I saw him again the other day, deep into Auburn, stomping along Center Street like a pirate marching across a Pacific island, looking for plunder. From his ungloved hands hung those iconic plastic bags, overflowing with riches. And right about the time I spotted him, I read a message on Facebook from a person on […]

Down in the mouth Did you know that at the Rite Aid on Union Street in Auburn, if you want to buy Anbesol or any of the feel-good mouth medicines you have to get it from a clerk? Totally true. It’s similar to the way you have to produce a passport and sign your name […]

God help you. There’s an ache in your back that’s like a great, invisible sadist grinding his knuckles into the muscles around your spine. The rest of you doesn’t feel so great, either. Your bones have been replaced by shards of glass. This aches. And that aches. It hurts whether you’re bent over, lying down […]

Hockey is back! Blistering slap shots, dramatic kick saves and center-ice throw-downs will return to the NHL starting Jan. 19. Due to the strike delay, the Stanley Cup is scheduled for two weeks later. The next strike will commence in February. Not that I’m bitter But I think they should start making those big, foam […]

The boy was 10 years old, a fair-haired moppet with a face full of freckles and a gap-toothed smile. He stood knee-deep in fresh-fallen snow, his cheeks as red as barn paint. “There ain’t nothing I like better than building snow forts and sliding down big hills,” he told me. “Winter is the best thing […]

Doppelganger It has come to my attention that stud photographer Daryn Slover was recently mistaken for me in a local grocery store. My thoughts on this are: Ha ha ha! How’d you enjoy that? Fortunately, it was one of the nice grocery store people, not one of the let-me-walk-you-to-you-car-and-follow-you-home-so-I-can-tell-you-all-about-how-I’m-paying-too-much-child-support types. Serling hangover What you suffer […]