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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: Use Your Performance Enhancing Power . . . Sleep

He maketh me to lie down... (KJV) --Psalm 23:2a Do you ever feel like you're barely hanging on, stressed to the max, and your tank...

FRED FIRST: Where Are You From?

I started writing in 2002 such that total strangers could read over my shoulder as a way of telling myself—and those who cared to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: West African Slave Trade: Buyers and Sellers

Last week I read an article in The Washington Post published on March 28 entitled “Harris Touches on Africa’s Painful Past - and Youthful Future”...

SERWAN ZANGANA: With God’s Help I Am Able to Conquer An Elevation of 7400 Feet

The Blue Ridge Marathon in Roanoke has become a traditional event for many people from across the nation and is certainly one of the...

SCOTT DREYER: May 8 (VE-Day) Reminds Us…Good Can Conquer Evil

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. --Winston Churchill It is easy to get discouraged in today's world: scary headlines, crises...

MIKE KEELER: No No No No No! (Or as they say in Spanish, ¡NO!)

It's Friday, the end of the week, so maybe you're thinking you can let yourself go a little bit, and you can drive through...