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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to it. Our losses accumulate. They range from minor to unimaginable. Last week, two sets of...

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...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

Joy Sylvester-Johnson: God is Love Makes for a Happy Ending

Once upon a time I was born. I don’t remember it, but I do know my parents received me with such gratitude they named...

Dick Baynton: 9/11/2001-19

The terrible events of the above date created a day of infamy (words borrowed from President Roosevelt when he announced the Pearl Harbor attacks...

DENNIS GARVIN: The Hospital Volunteer

He is an old guy, below average height and above average weight. The parking lot for the hospital volunteers is in the toughest place:...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Beaver and The Bluejay

My wife, Sabrina, has a new love, but I’m not jealous. He only weighs a thousand grams, has the worst over-bite I’ve ever seen,...

DICK BAYNTON: Is Our Constitutional Republic at Risk?

As a nation, we are on the verge of losing our way of life as defined in the ‘Declaration of Independence’ as set forth...

September – A Time With Much To Do in The Garden

September should be a time of much to do in the garden.  You will still have some success preventing spring lawn weeds by using...