With cold and flu season here, hugs are not worth the risk, says J.P. Devine.

While darkness clouds this moment in history with children being held in detention, and racism and anti-semitism stalking the streets, a free press and eagle-eyed journalists are things to be thankful for, says J.P. Devine.

A belated Veterans Day column is more about becoming a writer, J.P. Devine says.

The Waterville writer wonders if his words have forked enough lightning among readers and resolves to not go gentle into the good night.

For all the strides made in treatment, some 40,000 American women still die from breast cancer every year, J.P. Devine says.

With the "big one" in sight, J.P. Devine reflects on anniversary gifts over the years and what they mean.

Controversies over Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day are divisive and clumsy choices, J.P. Devine says, so how about Amerigo Vespucci Day?

The end of summer is usually brutal, but the change leaves us with the sweetest month of autumn, J.P. Devine says.

Harvard and Oxford educated, a former U.S. Navy officer in intelligence, married to a junior high teacher, multilingual and the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg will never be president, J.P. Devine laments, because he's gay.