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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,...

An Unfortunate, Untimely Failure of Orthodoxy

How has Orthodoxy impacted our environment?  In other words, can Orthodoxy be credited with any positive or negative developments in our historic relationship...

Chicken Tales: Fowl Language Warning

Yesterday, fall was in the air. Â I sat down in the maple shade of mid-afternoon with my legs full out on the...

Listening When It’s Easy—and Listening When It’s Tough

Tell me:  What happens to us as a family, a community, a nation—or a world—when the only people we talk with are people...

An Encompassing Empathy Brings Miracles

I met a lady in the ER. “You’re Erin’s dad, aren’t you?” For years my children were `Dr. Garvin’s kids’. As they make their...

Ah, The Price of Beauty…

Maria Gunning was born in 1733 to a humble family in central England.  But the family soon moved to a meager rental house...

Put Some Clothes On!

I had to laugh recently when a teenage boy asked me, “Did you see what the girl was wearing?”  Now, one might wonder...