People who’ve become addicted to opioids often tell troubling stories about debilitating physical symptoms, the loss of jobs and homes, and an inability to care for their kids and other people who are important to them.
William Allyn Shook graduated from high school in Tucson, Ariz., in the summer of 1975.
Once again, we have observed Father’s Day.
Not all fathers deserve a connection with Father’s Day, but most fathers do. We are a worthy bunch.
While I was out of town for a few weeks recently, I got to thinking about other “out-of-town” places, specifically places on the globe which are roughly on the same latitude as Northern Maine.
Picture yourself making a supreme effort to mark a momentous occasion — a wedding anniversary, a big promotion, adulthood arriving as the result of becoming a parent.
From 1977 to 1980, hundreds of U.S. servicemembers and civilians were deployed to the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean where the military had conducted nuclear weapons tests from 1956 to 1958 as the threat of the Soviet Union came to the fore.
In small towns and big cities across our country, Americans recently gathered to commemorate Memorial Day and honor those who died in the service of our country.
This morning I woke up to seemingly subarctic weather. The breeze coming in my bedroom window was amazingly cold for this time of year, especially after the last few days in the high 70s and low to mid-80s.
