To the editor:
Everyone’s heard that too many rats scrambling aboard a sinking ship will sink it. We as a nation are doing all we can to stay afloat with the people we’ve got now and the approximately one million legal immigrants we allow in every year.
October is the month in which kids start looking forward to picking out Halloween costumes and some people decorate their front porches with mums. It is also a time when spooky tales seem to come to the forefront of everyone’s minds.
Don’t get me wrong. My childhood was good. I had both parents until I was 12ish. They made decent money. Loved us and each other. My siblings and I were in sports, had a nice house, vehicles and loving pets.
Today, in fall 2021, can anyone deny the desire to go home again, “to be back home again looking for that old farm which feels like a long-lost friend,” as John Denver crooned?
Shu pas mal fier de moi. J’ai pas ramassé d’patates encore s’t’année. Ca fait comme 50 ans d’file que j’rammasse pas d’patates.
To the editor:
In May 2020, I wrote a letter to the editor asking “how low will a group of people go?” Today, I think we can ask that question again. It has certainly been answered over the past 16 months, after more than 60 cases in the United States of America Courts being thrown out or dismissed because of zero merit or proof of the complaint, including the Supreme Court, according to PolitiFact.com.
I was engaging in one of my favorite pastimes, at one of my favorite stores, when I noticed her standing beside me. I recognized her immediately and moved closer, saying hello. It took her a few moments to place me, but when she did, she smiled and moved toward me for a hug.
My name is Jonathan Holabird, and I want to share my story with you. It’s not a story about substance use or how I drove my friends and family away, although, you’ll read about that. This is a story about forgiveness, personal growth, and recovery.
To the editor:
As someone living with a chronic anxiety disorder/complex posttraumatic stress disorder, I’m proud to be able to volunteer my time to facilitate Healthy Living for ME online workshops.
In the past month, one out of every hundred residents of Aroostook County tested positive for COVID-19, according to a Sept. 15 story in the BDN and County weekly newspapers. Right now and throughout the entirety of this pandemic, we’ve done what Mainers always do: look out for each other and come together in a time of crisis.
