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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...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: Trump and God and Me

I have concluded I must be a masochist (one who enjoys an activity that appears to be painful or tedious) since I continue to...

DENNIS GARVIN: Dogs, Cats . . . And God

Let's consider dogs and cats. They are the two commonest animal groups that are domesticated and possessed as pets. I want to ignore the...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Life on The Median Strip

We’re all going through the same frustrations of confinement with Covid-19 and one way I have found to relieve my sense of isolation and...

BARBARA LEACH: Scouting Finds In The Garden

Plagues and pestilence!  What a year.  The blessing has been all the rain.  I have been so happy to not have to water something...

SCOTT DREYER: A Tale of Two Cities

A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands. --Proverbs 14:1 (New Living Translation) It was the best...

MIKE KEELER: Today is July 3 – So Let Me Tell You About Dick Garnett

Richard Brooke Garnett was born on November 21, 1817, on the Rose Hill estate in northern Virginia. He and his cousin attended West Point...