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BECKY MAUPIN: Mom Brain Isn’t All in Your Head

The number of times I’ve misplaced my keys and phone is embarrassing. So many times I’ve walked into a room and can’t remember what I needed. Coming up with...

FRED FIRST: Poems, Prayers and Prompts

WHERE WE ARE FROM The answer, when someone asks where you are “from” might be to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bill Clinton’s Shameful Congratulations Of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani – Part I

Far-left Democratic Socialist and Queens three-term assemblyman, Zohran Mamdani, won the Democratic primary on June 24, possibly...

BOB BROWN: What is Real?

Often, an old song plays in my mind. I cannot identify the situations that bring...

FRED FIRST: Spiders I Have Worn

I see now how often what I chose to write about in my haphazard weekly...

Adventures in Obamanomics

As regular readers have perhaps observed, this column occasionally features comments on the economy with emphasis on unemployment; jobs that along with investment in...

What Wondrous Variety!

In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two new species: a tiny ant and an equally diminutive...

The Sounds of Silence

I hesitated using this title as I thought I had done so already. Not true! Senior moment, I suppose. Interestingly however, I just "happened"...

Stones In The Washing Machine

Want to understand the rise of modern Europe? Look for stones in the washing machine. If you could go back to the 1400's, you...

Just A Day At The Beach

It was not the sort of day you would expect Death to intrude, but if my instincts were true, He would have a go...

Can We Regain Triumph From Tragedy?

This week’s column is an update on some of the events that don’t get headlines on the front pages or breaking news on radio...