J.P. Devine

J.P. Devine

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J.P. Devine is a Waterville-based writer and movie reviewer.



Latest Articles by J.P. Devine


June 14, 2013

Fathers need love, too

As the years pass, times change and kids get older, the days of primo Father's Day gifts are coming to an end.


June 7, 2013

Rodents enough to go around

Those tall, beautiful palm trees etched sharply against a gorgeous early evening orange sky over Los Angeles? They're full of rats.


May 31, 2013

When junk food isn't junk

There are food stamps offenders, and beer and cigarettes should always be cut, but come on, being down at the bottom isn’t as much fun as it appears, and sometimes, a Hostess cupcake can bring you up faster at the end of the month than a carrot, when loose change is all there is.


May 24, 2013

Money isn't everything, right?

J.P. Devine laments the purchases he had already planned based on winning Powerball ... which he did not win.


May 17, 2013

Forget the IRS, climate change, Benghazi: It's garage sale time

As I close the garage doors, she, the Garage Sale Queen for a day, will be sitting in an unsold antique chair, reading a $25 best-seller everyone passed up for the five-dollar tag.


May 3, 2013

One word: Florida

I don't like old people. Old people have scared me since I was a kid at my father's funeral. They kept coming by the row of chairs, hugging my mother, and then standing there smiling and staring at me. Then they'd take my hand and squeeze it. Their hands were ice-cold, and had big brown spots all over them. They smelled of talcum powder.


April 26, 2013

“Let’s go dancing”

You can dance inches or feet apart. You can swirl and jab, punch at the sky and work up a sweat and it’s dancing.


April 19, 2013

'No more hurting people ... Peace'

Each week I try to make myself laugh in hopes that it will make you laugh, and when I do, it shatters the darkness.


April 12, 2013

The changing of the apron

As his empty nest soon sees the return of its matron, J.P. Devine's "Home Daddy" ways are about to change.


April 5, 2013

I remember

I had a good idea for a column this morning, but I didn’t write it down and then I forgot it. Maybe it’s the cold or the wind. I can’t ever remember not being a great rememberer.

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