CentralMaine Sunday

"Guy stuff" are items you find in a hardware store that until recently, J.P says he had the advantage of, with help from his street friends.

There are mornings that stick to our eyes like the pennies the old Irish put on the eyes of the dead, J.P. Devine says.

The Waterville writer finds all of them to be scary, brilliant, neat, handsome, fierce, honest liberal Democrats with jaw-dropping, breathtaking life stories and political resumes, and each deserving of your vote should you choose to vote for them.

Joe Biden, the hail fellow and well met Irishman, strides along inhaling hair as his Democrat competitors nip at his heels and the Republicans sing hymns, says J.P. Devine.

But that doesn't mean things can't work out for people born in a Year of the Pig and a Year of the Dog or for the Dog-born Trump either, says J.P. Devine.

Casting about for Democrat men to play the role of president, J.P. Devine likes the Jimmy Stewart knockoff Beto O'Rourke from El Paso, Texas, and the Vermonter with the Brooklyn accent Bernie Sanders.

Since it's the celebration of St. Patrick's Day — his death, not his birth — J.P. decided to share his take on the many myths surrounding the holiday.

Driving lessons at age 43 took J.P. Devine in new directions and led him to meet Ramon, a Mexican-American from East L.A.

Recent debates at Waterville City Council meetings signal that we're getting a big city glamour face, J.P. Devine says.  

In the age of laptops and iPhones, memories of cursive handwriting recall a lost art that was once a pretty big deal, J.P. Devine says.