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 A guide to spending the holidays in Portland, ME by Bre Goode Hear those sleigh bells ring? Jingling, ring tingle tingling too? Then it must mean the holidays are   finally   here and we can’t think of a more magical and festive place to celebrate the spirit of the holidays than in Portland, Maine! …And while Santa puts the finishing touches on his lists, we have rounded up our personal list to spending the holidays in Portland, including shows, events, dining experiences and more!  Check it out.  Visit the Monument Square Tree Photo:  The Aritsan Agenda /  Anthony Di Biase No holiday season in Portland is absolute until you visit Portland’s signature Christmas tree.  Lighting up Monument Square every year , you can enjoy the beauty of this year’s tree in-person day or night, as well as, virtually through Portland Downtown’s  TREECAM . Illuminated against the backdrop of Monument Square and Our Lady of Victories Monument, this year’s blue sp...

 Portland Press Herald Holiday Gift Guide

 2024 Scarborough Holiday Guide

  As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write 28 Nov 2024 2:00 PM ET by Ceclilia Padilla Iglesias and ERika C. Freeman Cecilia hadn’t expected the video to resonate so deeply. She often watched online talks about her field of research. But this one didn’t just present pioneering scientific ideas; it put into words the uncomfortable reality she had been grappling with. She was nearly 30 years old and single, and she had recently interviewed for a postdoc position that would require her to uproot her life yet again. She couldn’t ignore a growing question: whether and how she would be able to have children. The talk, by anthropologist Marcia Inhorn, explored the silent struggles many highly educated women face in balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with wh...

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  How to cool down this year’s family gatherings by Priya Parker We’re coming off an intense and polarizing election. If you, like millions of Americans, are traveling to spend time with an extended circle, you may be thinking more than usual about how to help the group connect (or just not blow up). ​ When there’s been a rupture within a group, we tend to think we need to go immediately to the tear. To hash it out, to talk through what’s wrong and how we’ve been hurt, just one more time. Sometimes we worry that we’re not being authentic unless we go for the jugular. ​ But if I’ve learned anything from twenty years as a conflict resolution facilitator, it’s that sometimes what’s needed most is to first water the proverbial garden. If we think of a community as a garden, this is the time to fill the soil with nutrients. To grow our capacity and desire to even want to be together. ​ Conflict resolution facilitators are taught to hold healthy heat. And sometimes that means turning the...