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BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then starts the bedtime rodeo that includes 4 meltdowns, 3 sips of water, 2 more...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

FRED FIRST: Homeward Bound

It would happen: the trip back to Floyd. And then it wouldn’t. And then it...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) Needs To Be Censured

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), who appears to be a self-important crackpot, tried hysterically (without officially...

Asking for Forgiveness is The Best Way to Live

Indeed, in a situation of disagreement with a person and through a discussion or an argument one can learn two things. First, how much...

FRED FIRST: Just Look For It: Horseweed

Once you recognize it, it is everywhere I have one purpose here: to cause a single reader to discover a common plant growing right outside...

DEVOTIONAL: Want To Be A Better Conversationalist? (2)

(...T)hey found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.  -- Luke 2:46b...

MIKE KEELER: A Short Primer in Technology 101

The story starts in 1948, when some engineering students at Drexel named Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland overheard their dean talking to the president...

FRED FIRST: Summertime, and The Living Is . . .

One of a number of reasons for a dry spell here on the R-Star columnist page has been the call to the garden every...

MIKE KEELER: “Sufferin’ Succotash!!”

These things are so awesome and tasty, they’re killer. Way back in the 1500s, when the Spanish headed west to explore the Americas, they ran...