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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to it. Our losses accumulate. They range from minor to unimaginable. Last week, two sets of...

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...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

SCOT BELLAVIA: A Minute in My Neighborhood

Laying on our blanket covered with the earliest crumbles of fallen leaves, I see our mailman four houses down. My one-year-old daughter, C–—, stands...

DEVOTIONAL: Three Mile-Per-Hour God

As they talked and discussed, Jesus himself drew near and walked along with them. --Luke 24:15 (GNT) Do you ever feel like life is going...

MIKE KEELER: Attention Paraskevidekatriaphobiacs: It’s Worse Than You Think . . .

As I alluded to last week, the Gregorian calendar was first rolled out in 1582, and was fully adopted by Europe in 1752. In...

SERWAN ZANGANA: It Should Not Be Difficult to Condemn The Atrocity of Hamas Attacks on Israeli Civilians

It is easy to be biased and support one side over the other in a conflict or a war between two countries as one's...

MELINDA MYERS: Plant a Few Trees for You and The Bees

Fall is a great time to add trees to your landscape. Not only do they provide shade, remove pollutants from the air, and help...

FRED FIRST: Nothing Gold… Autumn Is The Season for Letting Go

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to...