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PublishedApril 1, 2012
Now you see me … or do you?
As I write this column, the palm trees sway in the tropical breeze, the pale blue-green waves slip up the white sand and tickle my blue-tinted toe nails, as the beach girl hands me my margarita. Have you missed me?
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PublishedMarch 25, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: A country for old men
They sat at what most consider the best winter table, the big Formica-topped booth in the sunlight at a coffee shop outside of Portland.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: No more old men
It's here again. As I write this it's here, and as you read this, it's over. It's St. Patrick's feast day, that day when the first born on American soil celebrated by cooking up corned beef and cabbage, and when my grandfather slammed his beer glass down on the bar at Skeeter O'Neils and shouted, "Tell me again just exactly who it was who could afford corned beef?"
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PublishedMarch 18, 2012
Remains of an old Irish lot
It's here again. As I write this it's here, and as you read this, it's over. It's St. Patrick's feast day, that day when the first born on American soil celebrated by cooking up corned beef and cabbage, and when my grandfather slammed his beer glass down on the bar at Skeeter O'Neils and shouted, "Tell me again just exactly who it was who could afford corned beef?"
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PublishedMarch 11, 2012
The order and the disorder
If I turn my head slightly to the left, I can see it from here.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Ego 1, Yoga 0
A review of William Broad's new book, "The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards" recently appeared in these pages. It seems to lean heavily on the risks part.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Consider actors as you zip
Last night you taped your favorite shows. You had other things to do and games to watch before bed. You taped "Glee," "Modern Family," "Hawaii 5-0" and a movie, and you've settled in to watch them. In the middle of the story, up pops that annoying commercial. So you pick up that new remote and zip forward. Whooosh! We all do that. We're busy people for whom instant gratification isn't fast enough.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Kodak’s final moment
August 1941. Petty Officer Matt Devine stood behind the family’s peeling green lawn bench, his hands behind him. He was on a short leave and anxious to get out of this hot backyard and over to Mary Viellas’ before he had to catch his train.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: My first love? Think Twinkie
One day at recess in the school yard at St. Mary and Joseph Catholic School, I fell down and seriously skinned my knee. Everyone laughed and ran off, except for Mary Lister.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: No snow? Know snow
"You call this snow?" he shouts down from the top of his truck.
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