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PublishedOctober 22, 2021
Ode to a toothache
Street Talk: The pain of a bad tooth is immense. Extraordinary. When it comes for real — this screaming banshee of agony — you, the sufferer, will have moments where you are rendered clinically insane.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2021
When it comes to cops and the media, times have changed
Street Talk: It's become tense and guarded on both ends, and you can't blame the police for this — the media hasn't been altogether kind to cops in recent years.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2021
Little Miss Ray runs away from home
Street Talk: When the exchange of words was no longer enough, a plan was hatched. She would sneak out of her family home, travel up to Lewiston and at last, they would be in each other's arms.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2021
Big news stories that weren’t
Street Talk: Don't get me wrong, angry letter writer. When things like fires turn out to be not much at all, I'm happy about it. If no buildings burned for the rest of my life, I'd be as thrilled as anyone.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Street Talk: Now, doggonit, stop that cussing
Confessions of a habitual swearer who also happens to be interested in personal growth.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2021
Old Orchard Beach then and now
Street Talk: Old Orchard Beach is a sandy Xanadu where the glorious ocean meets $4 flip-flops, lip-scalding pier fries and some chubby kid vomiting all over the Matterhorn.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2021
Street Talk: Stop looking at my beard
The longer my beard grew, the more it seemed to antagonize people and I couldn't go anywhere without enduring one snide remark or another.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2021
Street Talk: How to assemble a posse and retrieve a stolen bike
Jess Paquette, a local busker, had her bike and ukulele stolen. After a few posts on Facebook, the community rallied to find the missing stuff—and succeeded, mostly.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2021
Street Talk: When newspapers were king
Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There's a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2021
Street Talk: Arguing with a fool
I'm pretty sure that if I kept track, I'd find that I talk to myself way, WAY more than I talk to others.
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