Stranger Than Fiction
Daniel Dunkle is editor of The Courier-Gazette and The Camden Herald. He is author of the novel, "The Scrimshaw Worm," available on Amazon. He lives in Rockland.
Email him at ddunkle@villagesoup.com and follow him on twitter @DanDunkle. Snail mail letters to 91 Camden St., Suite 403, Rockland, ME 04841.
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Jurik, Zdenek Jurik
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 16You may have met Zdenek Jurik. He lived in Camden for years, working as an engineer, tinkering in his spare time building guitars and taking care ...
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Yes, Cheryl, your vote still counts
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 05We recently received the following letter from Randall S. Hocking of Rockland: "I am writing to you in hopes you can answer a touchy question in ...
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Big Brother just posted a selfie
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 09I have an idea for a new sitcom. It will be one of these workplace comedies about the NSA operatives who are listening in to all of our phone ...
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What I learned in third grade
By Daniel Dunkle - Jun 13“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” — ...
A stone for Cleo
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 05I was walking down my road a few weeks ago just after dark. "Cleo?" I called for my little black cat. I would cluck my tongue and make little ...
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The dance of the dead squirrel
By Daniel Dunkle - May 10The first step toward freedom is finding your voice. That's what I've learned from my cat, Spazzy McSpazitron (A.K.A., Cleo Catra). The other day, ...
Talk to the paw
By Daniel Dunkle - Apr 26Last week, about this time, I was sitting right here at the computer writing about unplugging my bathroom drain. While this was a somewhat modest ...
Long speeches and unzipped coats
By Daniel Dunkle - Mar 02On most school nights, Wesley and I go over a little social studies together. It only takes a few minutes. He fills in the name of one state and ...
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King of the lunchbox
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 12The apocalypse has begun. We’re barely a week into 2012 (anyone noticed that people have changed to saying twenty-twelve instead of two-thousand-tw...
A great day for Leroy
By Daniel Dunkle - Apr 06Portland - The April 1 visit of President Barack Obama to Portland was especially relevant to residents in the Midcoast. Word arrived last week that Leroy ...
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Mall of the future
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 27There was something a little different this past Christmas season. I noticed that almost every present under the tree came in the mail in an ...
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I know about the rhubarb
By Daniel Dunkle - Jun 11It's already started again for this summer. Strangers knock on my door or walk up to me in the driveway. They approach carefully, slowly, sheepishl...
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My kingdom for a dash
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 25I do not always have the most recent version of Flash on my computer. This is partly because I do not really know what that is, and partly because ...
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Rockland — it's not just pretty on the outside
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 12In the winter, when the sky is gray day after day and the cold aches in my bones, I ask Christine why we can't move to some tropical island. Even ...
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The day the lights went out in Rockland
By Daniel Dunkle - May 17Even though it was a Saturday, I had a lot to do for the newspaper. I had scheduled myself for weekend duty because Saturday night was the big ...
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Not for all the tea in Portland
By Daniel Dunkle - May 03"Would you like a free sample?" I was ambling along in the Portland Mall when I heard these words, and my mind conjured all kinds of tasty ...
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A hairy situation
By Daniel Dunkle - Apr 12One of the things you think you’re going to do as a parent is correct all the perceived wrongs perpetrated by your own folks. For example, I ...
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Just say 'no'
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 19Any parent can tell you one of the first words any child learns to say is “no!” This is often seen as a negative thing — a child showing human ...
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More than one way to skin a squash
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 05The holiday season has gone by in such a blur of activity that I realized I never even had a chance to write about it. Remember how when you were ...
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Where are the desert mutants and flying cars? It's 2010!
By Daniel Dunkle - Dec 31By the time you read this, it will probably be the year 2010. I grew up during the Cold War, and we were pretty certain that by 2010 we would ...
