Nellie Blog

Halfway down the stairs Is a stair where I sit: There isn't any other stair quite like it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the...

Gwen Ifill slices through the fog I was a fan of Gwen Ifill before yesterday. She's got a straightforward way of cutting through the rhe...

*sigh*

Cathleen ni Houlihan and other reflections on Revolutionary Ireland "It is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suff...

Chapter CVI in which I say to hell with it April 5, I woke up to discover 18 inches of snow in the front yard. And the back yard. And what i...

in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious Yes, folks, that's my driveway in Just-spring, when the world is puddle-wonderful....

My little boy is growing up I was cleaning out Howard's tank tonight and realized he's grown a bit. Then I realized that it's b...

Awww .... The puppies are bonding. (She likes me, too.)

Sunday Funnies Our biggest rival, the Sun Journal out of Lewiston/Auburn (circulation 36,000), maintains a bureau in Farmington but is appar...

Town meetings totally rock I'm in New England now, where we have town meetings. Tonight, I covered the meeting in Chesterville, a small,...

Two is better I spent Saturday sitting behind the wheel of my van, from 6 in the morning until 9:30 at night. I drove from Farmington, Maine...

My Grandfather Speaks In the early 1900s when I was about 10 years old, I was invited, along with two of my buddies, to spend a weekend with...

Absorbing a dose of championship energy This picture is why I don't mind driving up into the countryside late at night. A little high sc...

At the risk of posting twice in one day, you should really read this . It's kind of the opposite of where I'm at. Thank god. But als...

Welcome Home (The shovel's just inside the door) Why would anybody build a house in Maine with two -- count them, two -- roofs slanting ...

My daughter the transformer I became a father for the third time 20 years ago this month. I began dating a very nice woman with a daughter w...

It seemed like such a good idea at the time I came across this ad in an issue of the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh NY published just after...

My first Maine moose! (not visible in picture) You have to understand what went into this picture -- coming around the curve by the high sch...

Homecoming Friday night I went up north to cover an informational meeting about the various plans to reform Maine's educational system....

Sarnoff says public will not pay for radio programs (December 28, 1923) With the general trend of thought among radio enthusiasts leaning to...