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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...

STUART REVERCOMB: Count Your Chickens

I am 58 years old and still counting - for which I am very thankful. In 1900 average life expectancy was 47 years of...

H. BRUCE RINKER: Pandering For Christ

One of my Grandmothers was the daughter of a fundamentalist preacher who believed and practiced a literal interpretation of the Bible (King James, version,...

DICK BAYNTON: The Decline of Patriotism

It was troubling to read that a Gallup poll taken in 2018 showed that poll participants who were ‘extremely proud’ to be a citizen...

IN THE GARDEN / ISI Tomatoes

Though paper garden catalogs are not as plentiful as in years past, many of you are finding that your mailboxes contain these dream packets. ...

STUART REVERCOMB: Humility Builds The World’s Finest Guitar

Maybe you’ve heard of him and maybe you haven’t, but Wayne Henderson is an extraordinary lesson in the living out of humility. Plain. And. Simple. Henderson...

DICK BAYNTON: Déjà Vu All Over Again

The Olympic Games have been staged every four years since 1896. Beginning in Athens, Greece, the first competition featured participation by 14 nations; the...