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BOB BROWN: Loss of the Sense of the Sacred

During World War II, men went to war and women went to work. But where did the children go? Who assumed the mothering responsibility of the unavailable mothers? Who...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Russia’s Inhumanity To Russians – Part II

The West should economically ostracize and defeat the tyrannical Putin, like the gangster whom he...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Russia’s Inhumanity To Russians – Part I

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern Belarus, formally ended Bolshevik Russia's participation in World War...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Changing of the Tires

The car I drive now doesn’t even have a spare tire. Can you believe that?...

FRED FIRST: Facing Forward. Facing Back.

Maybe it’s okay that I can’t go back twenty Januarys past, or ten as a...

What is Your Child’s Job Description?

by Keith McCurdy If you had to write a “kid job description” what would you write?  I was actually asked this question recently…and it...

Sound Guys Hard to Forget

by Joe Kennedy I spent 36 years in daily journalism, and in that time my memory performed some marvelous tricks. For a long spell, I...

Honeybees Buzzing Back in 2011

by Fred First What with the extremes of temperature and rainfall, and cursed by more than the usual cadre of pests in the vegetable...

Everyone Has Something to Write

by Hayden Hollingsworth It was four years ago today I wrote my first column for The Roanoke Star-Sentinel. Now, 114 columns later I took a...

My Dogs Don’t Do Time Zones

by Jon Kaufman The state of Arizona does not believe in daylight savings time and neither does my dog Roscoe.  Along with Hawaii, Arizona...

A Few Thoughts at 63 and Counting

by Lucky Garvin Flying across the highway in front of me was a crow; and in its beak, a long piece of limp brown...