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BECKY MAUPIN: A New Season, New Expectations

Motherhood, I'm learning, is a series of seasons. None of them are truly easy; they're all hard in different ways. We make it through one challenging season only to...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The US Media’s Monomaniacal Obsession With Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapping

I do not mean to downplay the tremendous tragedy of the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Barack and Michelle Obama Are Neither Apes Nor Monkeys

I read an article from the BBC on February 6 entitled, "Trump says he 'didn't...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part I

Too often, the human race is a race against time. Until recently, I was a...

A Not So Good Teenage Decision

by Robert Adcox Adolescence has always been filled with hard lessons such as how to deal with ennui. When bored, teens engage in a...

Recipe of the Week: No More Square Break Apart Cookies

by Leigh Sackett My daughter had a lemonade stand two weeks ago to raise money for the Angels of Assisi Animal Shelter. It will...

When the Music Stops

by Hayden Hollingsworth Working as a volunteer at WVTF for many years, long ago I put a face with the voice of Seth Williamson....

Greening the Supply Chain

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. Recently, a colleague from México City sent me a link to an insightful article published on-line by the Ethical...

Remembering My Mother-In-Law

by Mary Jo Shannon When Harry and I married, I became the daughter Helen and Harry Shannon, Sr. did not have. We had become...

The Board of Directors Thought He Was Nuts

by Mike Keeler And you have to admit, the idea behind Steve Jobs' television spot was rather, um, different.  It was a story about...