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JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Changing of the Tires

The car I drive now doesn’t even have a spare tire. Can you believe that? I was suitably enamored with the vehicle to buy it anyway, though. I guess...

FRED FIRST: Facing Forward. Facing Back.

Maybe it’s okay that I can’t go back twenty Januarys past, or ten as a...

BOB BROWN: “A Very Heavy Heart For The State of The World”

A neighbor sent the following email to all who reside in this part of Albemarle...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hands Off Denmark!

President Trump has repeatedly called for the annexation of Greenland since 2019, recently appointing former...

BOB BROWN: FITNESS AND DEMENTIA

We focus today on the role of fitness in the prevention and management of dementia....

DEVOTIONAL: Want To Be A Better Conversationalist? (2)

(...T)hey found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.  -- Luke 2:46b...

MIKE KEELER: A Short Primer in Technology 101

The story starts in 1948, when some engineering students at Drexel named Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland overheard their dean talking to the president...

FRED FIRST: Summertime, and The Living Is . . .

One of a number of reasons for a dry spell here on the R-Star columnist page has been the call to the garden every...

MIKE KEELER: “Sufferin’ Succotash!!”

These things are so awesome and tasty, they’re killer. Way back in the 1500s, when the Spanish headed west to explore the Americas, they ran...

DEVOTIONAL: Want To Be a Better Conversationalist? (1)

(...) let every person be quick to hear (....) - James 1:19 (ESV) Today, the Covid pandemic is still painfully in our minds, but there...

SCOTT DREYER: My Message To The Roanoke County School Board

These remarks were shared with the Roanoke County School Board by email on August 17, 2023. I share these thoughts with the Roanoke County School...