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ANDY PITZER: Silent Barter

Take a look at your salt shaker the next time you sit down at the dinner table. Or the canister of Morton’s Salt in your cupboard. Now take a gander...

FRED FIRST: Spaces: Inner, Outer & Other

I exist even still in a “liminal space” (which could be a whole other post—with...

ANDY PITZER: Paraphrasing GPT

When I come to think about it, probably the one thing I’m most proud of...

BOB BROWN: IF YOU LOVE YOUR BRAIN, TAKE CARE 0F IT, PART THREE

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part THREE, our final section. These...

SERWAN ZANGANA: It’s time for positive change in Roanoke City, vote James Creasy for Sheriff

An enthusiastic and experienced law enforcement officer, a veteran deputy, is eager to bring changes...

What Love Can Do…

The mutt lay motionless in our front yard, snow matted in his coarse brown hair, eyes half-closed and mucous running from both nostrils....

LWH—Living While Hispanic

It’s sometimes daunting how much times have changed.  As the change occurs, it seems scarcely noticeable at first--then it becomes so monumental it...

The Recipe of the Week: Bean & Salmon Salad with Anchovy-Arugula Dressing

In my own life, when I am not eating right it is simply because I have not planned out our meals well. It...

From The Older Brother’s Room

In the past I have referred to Jesus as our elder brother.  That is a wonderful familial description but it begs the question,...

Predator, Prey and An Egg A Day

Between April showers, the warm, calm dusk deepened toward dark. Lightning flashed soundlessly in the far distance as I slipped on my boots,...

Owing So Much to One Who Doesn’t Remember

I entered his room. I saw a faded tattoo, a shadow of its former pride, on his forearm. “U. S. Army.” I shook...