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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: The Emerging USA?

According to current Democratic gospel, voters will flock to the polls in the next couple elections and cast their votes for a tsunami of...

LUCKY GARVIN: Mrs. Bronik

Mrs. Bronik. Say the name softly; let it conjure imagery in your mind. Surely a serial killer, born with venom on her lips. Her pupils? Elliptical. Mrs. Bronik. Not...

MIKE KEELER: This One’s About the Moon, and The Son

Publisher's Note: This one also ran on April 13th 2012 (6 years ago) because it was in alignment then too . . . The traditional...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: Everybody Has A Story

I love stories. I love to hear them. I love to tell them. I love to write them. I love to read them. Well, you get the idea. Recently traveling...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Good-Bye to Gutenberg

In the year 1439 there appeared an invention that was perhaps the most important happening in the second millennium.  The inventor is remembered as...

DICK BAYNTON: The Causes and Consequences of Migration

The Berlin Wall was built starting on August 13th, 1961 and its destruction began on November 9th, 1989. The real purpose of the wall...