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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won the Nathan‘s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which was located at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New...

BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to...

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...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Has It Been That Long?

Time has a way of collapsing on itself in retrospect.  It has been more than half century since the turbulent 1960s spilled out into...

Dick Baynton: Education is Located in ‘The Swamp’

As mentioned in last week’s column, education is the foundation of free and creative thought and the source of fresh ideas and concepts that...

Lucky Garvin: So Much More Than A Game

Even in a time when electronic diversions hold dominion over so many of us, the board game ‘Monopoly’ may be remembered. Its beginnings stretch...

Dick Baynton: The Illusion of Good Governance

Federal government consists of three branches; Executive (President), Legislative (Senate & House of Representatives) and Judicial (the federal court system topped by The Supreme...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Impatience

Reading bumper stickers helps pass the time at traffic lights.  A minister friend of mine saw one that caught his attention:  Honk If You...

LUCKY GARVIN: “I Can’t Stay Long . . .”

  Even before he came to our home, Sabrina and I made up our minds: We weren’t going to love him too much, since so...
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