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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...

DEVOTIONAL: B.U.S.Y. (2)

Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run;     hurry and scurry puts you further behind.  -- Proverbs 21:5 (The Message) One of the reasons old...

SCOTT DREYER: Happy Constitution Day 2023!

The US Constitution was signed by its framers on September 17, 1787, in what we now call Independence Hall in Philadelphia. That's why today...

MIKE KEELER: And You Thought It Was Just A Twinkie . . .

Okay, listen up, cupcakes, here’s a case study on the power of branding. Way back in 1849, a small bakery opened on Broome Street in...

SCOT BELLAVIA: The Creative Process by Adam Grant

All the articles I’ve written have gone through six phases. I didn’t recognize this until I heard them from writer Adam Grant. The phases...

MELINDA MYERS: Daffodils With A Difference

There are so many reasons to love daffodils. These spring-blooming bulbs aren’t fussy about where they are planted. They come back to bloom again...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Harvard Is A Leech Of The Worst Kind

Merriam-Webster defines a leech as “any of numerous carnivorous or bloodsucking usually freshwater annelid worms (class Hirudinea) that have typically a flattened lanceolate...