Nick Fuller Googins

Sep 3, 2024 | saturdayeveningpost.com | Nick Fuller Googins

In March 2020, I stopped cutting my hair. Like many, I wasn’t about to risk a COVID infection for a trip to Floyd’s barbershop. Unlike many, however, I have yet to return to the barbershop chair. I am now 41, my hair falls halfway down my back, and I have almost no clue what to do with it. I never intended to go four years without a haircut. I teach fourth grade. During year one of the pandemic, in the name of social distancing, our school halved class sizes and moved us into a gymnasium.

Jul 5, 2024 | themillions.com | Nick Fuller Googins

I was riding the train home to Maine when I finished Kristen R. Ghodsee’s latest book, Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life. I found myself teary-eyed and tingly with hope, an increasingly rare emotion in our age of pandemics, climate catastrophe, political paralysis, and widespread loneliness. I immediately reached out to Ghodsee, who just happened to be coming through Maine to visit friends.

Jul 5, 2024 | everand.com | Nick Fuller Googins

I was riding the train home to Maine when I finished Kristen R. Ghodsee’s latest book, Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life. I found myself teary-eyed and tingly with hope, an increasingly rare emotion in our age of pandemics, climate catastrophe, political paralysis, and widespread loneliness. I immediately reached out to Ghodsee, who just happened to be coming through Maine to visit friends.

Jul 3, 2024 | climateandcapitalmedia.com | Hannah Ritchie |Tom Steyer |Nick Fuller Googins

Pull up a beach chair, read a book (or two) and make a differenceIt’s the summer vacation season for many around the globe (winter break down under) – a time to reflect, turn off the work computer and take up a good book. As the U.S., U.K, France and many other countries head toward critical elections, it’s a good time to think about the issues that matter most to the world right now.

Jun 2, 2024 | pressherald.com | Nick Fuller Googins

Last week, the president of my union, the Maine Education Association, emailed more than 10,000 educators in our state with an announcement: The MEA had voted at its annual convention to urge our pension fund to divest its holdings from “any corporation, state-owned entity, or financial product identified as being complicit in the violation of the human rights guaranteed to Palestinian civilians under international law.” I’m a proud fourth grade teacher and union member, and this vote by the...