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Daniel Dunkle is the editor of The Courier-Gazette and The Camden Herald, and an award-winning novelist. He is a frequent contributor to Maine Seniors magazine. He lives in Rockland with his wife, Christine, also a writer and journalist, and his son, Wesley, and daughter, Samantha.
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Nothing to fear from teachers
By Daniel Dunkle - Mar 03A group of Maine lawmakers recently had an amazing idea. They said to themselves, “Wouldn't it be great if classroom teachers in public schools ...
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Five ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the 20th Century
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 11I was going to tell you how to have an awesome Valentine's Day inside your home with your children and your wife and the smell of the last 18 ...
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Prophecies from Generation X
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 21In a way I never saw the future coming. In a way, I was amply warned and warned with the use of amps. Growing up, I assumed the future would be ...
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An office party with Mary Tyler Moore
By Daniel Dunkle - Dec 23The Christmas movies and old TV episodes keep bringing home what's really important without even realizing what they are doing. At the time that ...
Take a Roman Holiday
By Daniel Dunkle - Nov 22If you're going crazy after months of watching the news, give yourself a break. TV has been relentless, ranging from men yelling at maps to people ...
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Something to read during the longest year
By Daniel Dunkle - Nov 13What a difference a few days can make. My deep thought on the snowy election day morning was, “Welcome to the longest day of the longest year.” By ...
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Required reading
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 25Last time we were talking about “Oliver Twist,” which I thought was worth the read, but also a bit of a slog. I hear people say things like, “I'll ...
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The crash of fall
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 01I was sitting here on the last Sunday of August under the apple tree reading The Shipping News, of all things. The description was of the Newfoundl...
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Style makes the man
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 24I hate AP Style. Also, I kind of love it. Long ago, I was an English major at the University of Maine at Orono. I was thinner in those days and ...
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Walk about
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 03The other day I was out walking in a green T-shirt, and a fairly good-sized bee decided I was a pretty, pretty flower, albeit a large one and one ...
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Which are you, silent majority or vocal minority?
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 19How often we hear the lament that the “vocal minority” is winning at the expense of the “silent majority.” The recent local example has been in ...
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Take your civility and shove it
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 05A lot of the hot air blowing out of face holes these days calls for finding common ground and returning to civility in political discourse. What I ...
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A fantasy book to read in a day
By Daniel Dunkle - Dec 31A helpful note arrived from reader Dan Dalrymple of Rockland, in response to my column on “News of the World” by Paulette Jiles. “In your column ...
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Sacred verses in News of the World
By Daniel Dunkle - Dec 04Read a pretty amazing little book over the past week or so on the recommendation of my mother, and it highlights, among other things, the relevance...
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The book club
By Daniel Dunkle - Nov 20I've never been part of a book club. I'm not good about reading something I'm supposed to read. But I happened to notice a constantly changing ...
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What a united people can accomplish
By Daniel Dunkle - Oct 01When I was a kid, I had a big poster on my wall of the space shuttle, labeling all of its parts. Not unusual, probably, for a kid with Star Wars ...
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Let's Twist again
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 18Earlier this year, I read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde and loved it. Here was a book about a young man in Victorian England who ...
Crossing the bar
By Daniel Dunkle - Aug 07Your computer is killing you. At least, I think mine is killing me. I've been thinking about why going out for a walk or puttering in the garden ...
Beach reads of substance
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 10Christine and I like nothing better this time of year than to sit outside on sunny days under the apple tree here in Rockland and read. After ...
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Discontent – the dish of spring
By Daniel Dunkle - Jun 12“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of citizens? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again.” – Tweaked from Les Miserables...
