LEWISTON — Lewiston playwright and children’s book author Paul Baribault had his newest book, “Our Brilliant Eternity,” published on Amazon. It is his first work of nonfiction and joins four of his children’s books already available on Amazon. At its center, “Our Brilliant Eternity” is about “our soul’s climb toward Enlightenment, and how the Earth […]
Paul Baribault
Posted inLetters, sj-web
An interesting experience
I started a job last fall driving the “safe-ride” shuttle on weekend nights at Bates College. What I immediately experienced is how polite and grateful all the students are to have this service. Recently, I had a very pleasant encounter. I was transporting a female student from India across campus and she asked me how […]
advertisement
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Welcome the refugees
Like many in Lewiston’s French community, one set of my grandparents came from Canada during the Depression to seek a new and, it was hoped, healthier and more prosperous life in America. They worked hard after they arrived. There were no signs at the Northern border saying they were not welcome because their help was […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Wake up to the right-wing agenda
Like a lot of senior citizens, I paid into Social Security for a long time. I received my first card at age 12, when I traveled to work for Mario’s Pizza in Poland for a starting 50 cents an hour. For more than five decades I paid into that institution, not realizing early on that […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
'Let them meet my wall'
Children along Mexico’s border are being torn from their parents’ arms and housed in detention centers, some with cages or cells. I have two children, whose well-being I care for deeply, as many other parents do, as well. How many people, if living in a dangerous country where their sons were constantly being approached by […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Comment was outrageous
In a White House meeting, Kelly Sadler, aide to President Donald Trump, on hearing of John McCain’s opposition to the president’s pick as CIA director because of her past support of torture, said of the Senator, “It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway.” What a hard political atmosphere we are living in now, where one’s common […]
Posted inbPlus, sj-web
Paul Baribault: A writer's life
Almost from the very beginning, Paul Baribault knew what he wanted to do with his life. And so, with big dreams dancing in his head, he announced his plans to his high school guidance counselor. It could have gone better. “I said, ‘I’m going to be a writer,’” Baribault recalls of that long ago conversation. […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
When is enough, enough?
Bots, an armada of them from Russia, were insinuated through social media into the 2016 presidential campaign election. It was a strategy designed to harm Hillary Clinton, favor Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and lift Donald Trump into the presidency, according to recent indictments of 13 Putin-linked operatives. “With the FBI indictments, the evidence is […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Trump as the inveterate deceiver
The first thing that occurred to me about President Donald Trump’s reference to all countries in Africa as s—hole countries, was wonder at the reaction of my fellow Christians who support him. And how, in light of the Sermon on the Mount, they square those words with the tenderness of Jesus’ message toward the world’s […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
GOP tax plan hurts everyone
“Born in the halls of money” should be an italicized first footnote of the new congressional tax plan. It could, as well, be placed as a disclaimer at the end of the slick commercials touting the plan’s benefits to the “average American family of four” — a windfall of $1,200 — which, the ad fails […]