Guest Columnist
What To Do With Injured Wildlife
We at Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke have found that our neighbors in southwestern Virginia are very concerned about wildlife, so we want to provide some guidelines to...
ASHLEY RAMBO SHAW: I Hope You Found a Way Out
Jason was my best friend in the third grade, and he was hopelessly poor. He...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Pollution Has A Brand!
When Mexican businessman Alfredo Gandur inspected my photographs of marine plastics pollution along the coastline...
What Wondrous Variety!
In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two...
Stones In The Washing Machine
Want to understand the rise of modern Europe? Look for stones in the washing...
Campaign Year Spurs an Enviromentalist’s Pro-Life Lament
I would say that those who are callous about babies and callous about life ought to be brought to bear the callousness of...
Uneasy Rider
My road rash had an even, almost artistic pattern across my upper body. Knees and hands went without saying. Apparently converse tennis shoes...
Thinking Soda? Think Again!
Liquid calories are the ones most of us never consider but the ones that may contribute to major health problems. According to their...
Ask the Nature Lady -Winter Birds
One fall day as I was eating lunch at the kitchen table and looking out the sliding glass doors, two birds came zooming in...
No, No, No, No, No, No, No!
Do you recall the animated spiritual entitled, “Travelin’ Shoes”? Several years ago, when I resided in Roanoke, the choir of St. Andrew’s Catholic...
There Is An App. For That
With over 14,000 smart phone/tablet applications and counting, it can be difficult to sort through them for the best ones to aide you...