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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won the Nathan‘s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which was located at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New...

BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

Preacher’s Corner: From the Older Brother’s Room

For the past several months I have been directing our attention to Jesus’ parable in Luke 15.  The parable that is commonly referred...

“Life in Bold Relief” – Two Books Now Available by Lucky Garvin

I began to write thirty years ago, not merely to chronicle the events of my life, but to have them available for my children to...

The Very Real Horror of Retail Shopping

Friends, I have a problem.  Freely conceding that anyone who has read this column might consider this opening statement a laughable understatement, there is...

Country Mice, City Phones and the Cellular Divide

I want to tell you that I have found fantastic free software applications for your smart phone to help you discover and...

An Attitude of Wonder

Years ago, as a collector of antiquarian natural history books, I made a wonderful discovery in an old bookshop in Washington, DC.  I found...

My Daughter’s Twenty-Five Dollar Wedding Dress

My fifteen-year-old daughter Kathy was exuberant. She had spent Sunday afternoon with her friend Jimmy, who walked her home in time for supper. I...