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Video of JFB testimony to Maine Judiciary Committee
-This is the three minutes of testimony I provided to the Maine Judiciary Committee, which was considering the bill to…
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JFB testimony to the Maine Judiciary Committee: “The ‘Wacky’ Professor”
-Yesterday, I spoke to the Maine legislature’s Judiciary committee. A bill has been proposed to “exempt” transgender people from protections…
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Magic Eight Ball Reveals the Future
-I spent this New Year’s Eve safely at home, hunkered down with the family and a couple of friends. I’ve…
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Boylans in Yellowstone
-A flashback to five years ago this summer, when the Boylans travelled to Wyoming. July 2005 Like most Mainers, we…
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The Writers’ Mise en Place
-Facebook friend (and New Yorker writer) Susan Orlean is up at the Macdowell Colony, I think, if I’m following the…
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Postcard from Maine
-Down at the town wharf, eatin lobstah rolls, watching the fishing boats go out. We nipped into the Harraseeket lobster…
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look, up in the sky
-I was feeling a little blue. Squirrels in the birdfeeder. The phone rang. My friend Jon Gawler said, well,…
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JB this week at the University of Maine!
-Hello Black Bears. I will be at the University of Maine this Thursday April 15, as part of the…
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The best day.
-Yesterday, August 28, was a clear, sparkling late-summer day in Maine and I decided to seize it by dropping everything…
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The Passing of the Armies by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
-Yesterday, at a party for Maine Writers and Publishers, former Maine governor Angus King read the following memoir extract of…