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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...

MIKE KEELER: Just A Song

Sadly, you've heard this one before. And you have Daniel Butterfield to thank. He was just a kid from Utica, New York, who attended Union...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Care-free, Careful, Care-filled

There are three stages of life through which most of us go: care-free, careful, and care-filled.  This came to mind as I followed a...

LUCKY GARVIN: Unexpected Communion

On the Saturday before Mothers’ Day, I went to the Wildlife Center to see if I could round up some volunteers to staff the...

DICK BAYNTON: Tolerance As a One-Way Street

Your first financial transaction could have been when you were a six or seven year-old and one of your parents gave you a quarter...

H. BRUCE RINKER: Do You Believe In Gravity?

An oncology nurse at a nearby research center asked me on an unseasonably warm day in late winter if the spring-like weather might be...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Don’t Fall For It!

Fortunate are you if you haven’t been the recipient of a scam phone call.  I’m not talking about the unsolicited calls to lower your...