Stranger Than Fiction... the blog
Daniel Dunkle is editor of The Courier-Gazette. He has worked in local journalism since 1998, serving as a reporter, photographer and editor. He lives in Rockland with his wife, Christine, and two children, Wesley and Samantha, and two cats, Luna and Nemo.
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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Back when families had dinner together
By Dan Dunkle - Sep 08I hear people say, rather pointedly, "Back when families had dinner together." We have dinner together often, but not every night, because ...
Bar Harbor Comic Con 2017
By Dan Dunkle - May 04I was going through the photos in my phone and thought I would belatedly share some pics from our visit to the Comic Con in Bar Harbor back in ...
5-2-1-0
By Dan Dunkle - Feb 05It's been more than a month since I drank soda. I made a New Year's Resolution that I would stop drinking sugary drinks, and I told people around ...
Our rebuttal to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette depiction of the Patriots
By Dan Dunkle - Jan 21Just the other day, Sports Director Ken Waltz showed me the cover of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette depicting the Patriots as a death ray from a ...
An inauguration observed
By Dan Dunkle - Jan 20I had the pleasure of watching the inauguration of President Donald Trump with the VStv crew today. As you can imagine there were a lot of ...
Pizza and the Electoral College
By Dan Dunkle - Jan 10This week, my column in the paper is part one of two on why your vote still counts. It was a big topic and I had to hack some stuff out of it. ...
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New Year 2017
By Dan Dunkle - Dec 312015 was probably the best year of my life. I know I typed 2015... that's not a typo. The family spent a week at Disney World and we followed it ...
Bring out the loud sweaters!
By Dan Dunkle - Dec 16We had the holiday party for newspaper folk from all three of our newspapers today at the office. People were asked to wear holiday sweaters, ...
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All I want for Christmas is Rogue One
By Dan Dunkle - Dec 06And a bunch of other stuff, just in case Christine is reading this. Last month the biggest note on my dry-erase wall calendar was the election. ...
Rigging up these lights!
By Dan Dunkle - Nov 29It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas in the news nest, as we call our quarters on the fourth floor of the Breakwater Marketplace building. D...
Just one day of sun
By Dan Dunkle - May 08Sunday it was sunny just long enough for us to tend to the yard. The lawn had already grown lengthy and we had some leaves and sticks to pick ...
Music appreciation
By Dan Dunkle - Apr 13For whatever reason, Samantha did not want to sing in front of people at her music concert at school the other day. So I got some pictures of the ...
Our saxophonist
By Dan Dunkle - Feb 02Not long ago, Samantha, age 11, started practicing for school band on her uncle's old saxophone. It was immediately apparent that she does not ...
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Responses to column: Your Vote Still Counts
By Dan Dunkle - Jan 21I have received two responses to my columns, which ran in the last two editions of The Courier-Gazette arguing your vote still counts. In the ...
Cats are useless
By Dan Dunkle - Jan 17In my home, I have not one, but two cats. These cats have all of their claws. About 90 percent of their time is spent sleeping. Most of the rest ...
It's new Day-Timer pages day!
By Dan Dunkle - Jan 02Today is the first work day of the year for me. It is the day that I come into my office and find new pages for my Day-Timer waiting in a package ...
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Sweet enough
By Dan Dunkle - Dec 29Every year the holidays remind us of one very important thing. You can only eat so many sweets. Fudge, cookies, pie, chocolates, Nerds candies, ...
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Check out the Star Wars Holiday Special
By Dan Dunkle - Dec 12I did find the Star Wars Holiday Special on YouTube this weekend and it just about ripped apart our family. Samantha complained endlessly about ...
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Reader response appreciated!
By Dan Dunkle - Nov 30I received a nice email this week in response to my column/blog on playing board games with the family. I will have to try these suggested games ...
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Tips for polite political debates at family dinners
By Dan Dunkle - Nov 23With the nation divided following a nasty presidential election, many are concerned that their holiday meal or family get-together is going to be ...
