Author Archives: Mario Carmine Moretto

Going native in Maine nursing homes

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Mario Carmine Moretto

Evan Carroll slowly made his way through the halls of the Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough last Monday. He uses a walker, and is making the trek from the dementia unit, where he’s been staying, to the rehabilitation unit. Two nurses help carry all his belongings. “I’m just going to the other end of the building,” he tells another resident. “I’ll come back and visit.” Continue reading →

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Love life

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Mario Carmine Moretto

I’m walking up State Street with my headphones on. There’s an old man sitting on his stoop with a glass of what looks like dark beer, smoking and seemingly talking (very excitedly) to himself. I offer a polite wave and … Continue reading →

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Journalists aren’t superheroes. You don’t get an alter ego.

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Mario Carmine Moretto

Journalists are not Batman. You don’t get to take a night on the town as Bruce Wayne, unrecognizable from your brand. You take it with you everywhere you go. Pretending otherwise seems to me as silly as parading around in a cape and cowl. Continue reading →

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In memoriam

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Mario Carmine Moretto

To my knowledge, the Unitarian Universalist Church in Brunswick is the only space that’s ever so destructively been taken off the list of possible venues for the dirty, earnest southern Maine kids who are unwelcome in so many bars and nightclubs. Continue reading →

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