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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...

JEFF ELL: The Makeup-Free Forest

Like "Maggie's face in the morning sun," the leafless world of early spring is when we find out what our favorite wild places really...

DICK BAYNTON: Has Truth Become Irrelevant?

Kelvin Lyles of Atlanta, GA along with several hundred cohorts (by proxy) stole personal ID’s and produced illicit income amounting to about $350,000. The...

DICK BAYNTON: Death is Personal, Not Political

There are apparently millions of times right here in our country, among many, where casual conversations between acquaintances lapses into a seemingly innocent discussion...

DICK BAYNTON: Tales of Foreign Lust

The Internet has been a blessing on the one hand and a curse on the other. When we sent a letter containing confidential information...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: Today in Vietnam

First,  I saw the memorial to all the Viet Cong who died in HoChiMinh City. Then I toured the War Museum where examples of...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Horror Should Not Lead to Apathy

The horror of Parkland and all the other mass killings can easily raise rhetoric to levels that obscure the obvious.  Trying to restore reasonableness...