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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. (1)

We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it. --Psalm...

FRED FIRST: Tending The Melodies of A Lifetime

The advent of the COVID weeks, then months, then years wreaked untold hardship and abnormality for humans everywhere. If there is a silver lining...

MIKE KEELER: : The Coming Storm . . .

250 years ago, September, 1777, there was a Category 5 storm headed for the North Atlantic. But it wasn’t meteorological, it was monetary. It had...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Who Is This Stranger?

     We have a stranger in the neighborhood and he’s challenging everyone. He is running and seems to be very keen. “Who is he and...

MELINDA MYERS: Brighten Your Fall Landscape With Mums

Mums are a favorite fall flower that adds weeks of seasonal color to containers, gardens and fall displays. They are also a popular gift...

DEVOTIONAL: Back To School Prayer For Boys

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what...