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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...

Six-legged Plagues Afflict Farm and Forest

by Fred First The color purple is not so common in nature, and so it immediately grabs our attention when we round a bend on...

Recipe of the Week: Slumber Party Pretzels

by Leigh Sackett Ten might be a magical number. I say this because my daughter will turn ten on June 2nd and working towards...

A Thousand Resurrections by Gary Robbins

On Friday, May 5, my father was on an operating table in Richmond. Two months earlier, on March 11, he had suffered a heart...

Of Power and Passion

by Hayden Hollingsworth Once again, we are flooded with more information than we need to have about the private lives of the rich and...

Recipe of the Week: Memorial Day American Flag Cake

by Leigh Sackett I have discovered recently that being ignorant to my nation’s history is like being given a wonderful birthday present and not caring...

Still Searching . . . But Keeping My Sense of Humor

by Jon Kaufman It is day sixty-four of unemployment and friends; I am still desperate and jobless.  Like many Americans, I am experiencing the...