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BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers had safely returned from an unprecedented successful attack on Iran’s fortresses of nuclear weapon...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then...

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...

Joy Sylvester-Johnson: God is Love Makes for a Happy Ending

Once upon a time I was born. I don’t remember it, but I do know my parents received me with such gratitude they named...

Dick Baynton: 9/11/2001-19

The terrible events of the above date created a day of infamy (words borrowed from President Roosevelt when he announced the Pearl Harbor attacks...

DENNIS GARVIN: The Hospital Volunteer

He is an old guy, below average height and above average weight. The parking lot for the hospital volunteers is in the toughest place:...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Beaver and The Bluejay

My wife, Sabrina, has a new love, but I’m not jealous. He only weighs a thousand grams, has the worst over-bite I’ve ever seen,...

DICK BAYNTON: Is Our Constitutional Republic at Risk?

As a nation, we are on the verge of losing our way of life as defined in the ‘Declaration of Independence’ as set forth...

September – A Time With Much To Do in The Garden

September should be a time of much to do in the garden.  You will still have some success preventing spring lawn weeds by using...