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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...

The Raindrop That Falls To The Earth – By The Reverend Barkley Thompson

Episcopal seminarians are required to complete a summer of hospital chaplaincy.  It is on-the-job training of the most intense kind, and the lessons...

There’s No Place Like Home!

by Mary Jo Shannon When I taught three and four-year-olds, one of their favorite stories was about a mouse family who lived in a...

A Summer Deckhand on the James

by John Robinson Chuck and I manhandle the wooden ramps into place as Grey prepares to direct the cars off the ferry. It’s another...

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...

The Death of Privacy

by Hayden Hollingsworth That obituary was written long ago.  The Alien and Sedition Acts of the late 18th century jumped all over the rights...

To Make A Cool, Delicious Summer Classic, You Need A Little Magic

by Mike Keeler The beverage was originally dreamed up in Scotland.  The idea was to combine the cool bubbly refreshment of an ale with...