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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...

DICK BAYNTON: Hatred Is Not A Strategy

It is highly probable that most of us would believe that hatred could be appropriately defined by the plans and actions of Adolf Hitler...

LUCKY GARVIN: Second-Guessing Your Wife

I want to tell you a story; then I’ll tell the rest of the story: Although males and females use the very same words, they...

MELINDA MYERS: Twelve Must Plant Pollinator-Friendly Flowers 

Fill your garden with colorful annuals you and the pollinators can enjoy all season long. Look for outstanding varieties chosen by All-America Selections (AAS),...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Parental Harvest

It is the evening of Father’s Day 2014. I sit in my darkened office, feet up, pensively watching the last rays of the evening...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: A Reunion of Prodigal and Prodigies

I have two large boxes full of family photos in my closet.  Every time I start to organize them I am ambushed by the...

Dick Baynton: The Enemy Among Us

One of our Wyoming readers sent an E-Mail this week that included an op-ed in The New Your Post that was attributed to Charles...