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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won the Nathan‘s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which was located at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New...

BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

MIKE KEELER: One More Round of Friday The 13th

(Oh, this is so lucky! It's Friday the 13th, right smack-dab in the middle of August. Which means I can pull out an old...

SCOT BELLAVIA: It Is Only ‘Us Versus Them’

Remember, in his inaugural address, when Joe Biden preached of his hope to unify us? He prodded our emotions from a fortnight prior when...

SCOTT DREYER: A Refugee from North Korea Warns US

Do not be deceived.  -- Galatians 6:7   "Most Americans wouldn't believe it. If we all could listen to her story, none of us would ever...

SCOT BELLAVIA: How Can You Believe That?

There are two especially absurd outlooks on personal consciousness that I keep a close watch on. But they may only be absurd because I...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: The Way It Works . . .

With the help of GPS, I found the building. On my third time driving around the block I found an open space and parked the...

SCOTT DREYER: Bedford County Man Heading To Japan

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."                 ...