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BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part III

Being elderly is a full-time job. It could be the best job you ever had, but it will never be the easiest. Even Billy Graham, the preeminent spiritual leader...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Running For President in 2028? – Part I

I strongly suspect that the self-assured and arrogant Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is going to be a presidential or...

FRED FIRST: But Is It Art?

I have mentioned before that I have recently found pleasure and pleasant distraction in the...

BECKY MAUPIN: A New Season, New Expectations

Motherhood, I'm learning, is a series of seasons. None of them are truly easy; they're...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired...

SCOT BELLAVIA: This One Trick Has Enhanced Our Marriage

When I told my friend that my wife and I do a different nightly activity each day of the week, he said, “Whoa, buddy....

MIKE KEELER: The Letters, the Leak, and Liberty

250 years ago this month, Boston was on the boil. It was a result of events going back much further, all the way to 1603....

Born On The Fourth of July

This year marks 247 years since the United States of America declared itself an independent nation, no longer under the rule of King George...

DEVOTIONAL: What Does The Bible Say About Pride?

The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble.  --Proverbs 3:34 (BST) In the old days of pipe organs, a person was...

MELINDA MYERS: Dealing With Tree Surface Roots

Roots erupting through the soil surface that extend beyond the tree trunk are known as surface roots. This is a normal part of aging...

MIKE KEELER: Forget Necessity – The FATHER of Invention is Desperation.

Here's an example. In 1922, in the little German village of Deisenhofen, a retired railroad worker named Franz Xaver Kugler opened an inn and...