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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...

MIKE KEELER: Here’s A Little Challenge For You

Look down and search on the ground for a stone. A very specific stone. It needs to be almost completely flat, like the kind...

SCOTT DREYER: Trial Regarding Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Began This Week

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past six years or so you have heard much about the "Trump-Russia Collusion" and...

SCOTT DREYER: A Tale Of Two Protests

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...

SCOT BELLAVIA: My Family Plays Rummy

I hear families take a week ?to play a full game of Monopoly—if the family doesn’t break apart by Wednesday. My family, however, has...

SCOTT DREYER: Remember Victory In Europe (VE) Day, May 8 or 9

Yesterday while many in the US were celebrating Mother's Day on May 8, it was also the anniversary of an important date in history:...

Bonsack Thursday Noon Prayer Group Extends Invitation

As reported in The Roanoke Star, the first Thursday of May is, by joint resolution of Congress and signed into law by Democrat President...