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Columnists

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: Syria – Holocaust II?

Winston Churchill, speaking on radio in October 1939 said something like this about Russia: It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: I Am The Crawlspace Ninja

I’m stretched out and almost stuck. Like a horizontal version of a statue of Athena I lie there figuring / planning my next step....

DICK BAYNTON: Where Is All The Money Going?

Perhaps the most circulated pecuniary currencies in the world are the U.S. dollar, the British pound and the Euro. The Chinese yuan, Japanese yen...

LUCKY GARVIN: A Temporal Sketching

Although no longer practicing medicine, every now and then my mind undertakes a backward seeking. This memory came to me today: I watched a little...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: Gargling and Googling

Gargling, much to my surprise, is not like riding a bike. Recently, returning from a road trip, I noticed my throat was feeling itchy and...

DICK BAYNTON: Loss of Honor

The ‘Founding Fathers’ created a ‘Republic’ that is frequently referred to as a ‘Democracy’; technically speaking it probably doesn’t matter to most of us...