back to top

Columnists

BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that there is mixed content. Some of it is positive and gives you really good...

BOB BROWN: When the Underdog Bites Has Rabies, and a Mean Owner

We have a strong human urge to identify with the “underdog.” There is nothing new...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part II

Unfortunately, Trump’s present ceasefire as of October 9 is analogous to the armistice signed between...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part I

Phase one of Trump‘s twenty-point peace plan in the Gaza Strip, which began on October...

FRED FIRST: Approaching the Longest Night

Yes, you’re right—if you’ve even noticed—that this space has been neglected for some weeks now,...

Frustration is Necessary

by Keith McCurdy With regularity I am asked by exasperated moms and dads “why do we keep getting into arguments with our kids when...

Hope Springs Eternal – Even for Us Black Sheep

by Jon Kaufman Every family, despite of station, seems to have an underachiever in their midst, that one person who fails to rise to...

From the Older Brother’s Room by Ed Dunnington

Several weeks ago, around a dinner table with friends, the question was asked, “What are you most afraid of?”  The common things came...

Mountain Lions: Mystery, Myth and Matters of Fact

by Fred First Inside the rustic cabin a few easy miles from the heart of Camp Winnataska, a dozen ten year old campers scrambled...

The Dear Friend

by Lucky Garvin From years ago . . . Most physicians become acquainted with death in late medical school; the clinical years. For ER physicians,...

“Morphosis” by Barkley Thompson

In 1991, a new word entered our common lexicon.  The term was the product of two events in pop culture that occurred almost simultaneously:...