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LUCKY GARVIN: Be With Me While I Die

We bloom, like the tiniest flower, then we move on... I think that I will always define tenderness by those moments. Those moments, I watched a wife caress her dying husband,...

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

Unfortunately, Mamdani, if elected, would have complete power to appoint the police commissioner and near-total...

BOB BROWN: Feeling Helpless in America

You will find me among those who want “instant gratification,” an uncomplimentary way of saying,...

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...

FRED FIRST: Poems, Prayers and Prompts

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

A Few Small Nips

In her 1935 painting, “A Few Small Nips,” revolutionary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo recorded in cartoon-like fashion a grisly murder: a bare and bloodied...

Of Broad Heads and Bullets and Mysterious Forces

Here is the evidence you’ve been so patiently waiting for. The irrefutable, seeing is believing proof, that the antlers of whitetail deer have the...

No Price Too High For Obama Nobel Prize Legacy

It is curious why John Kerry and President Obama are going to such great lengths to cobble together a nuclear understanding with Iran; a...

Come and Get It!

My mom did not have the booming voice possessed by some of the other moms in the neighborhood, like Mrs. Fisher for instance, but...

When Hope is Hard to Find

Spring is finally here. By many standards our winters are barely more than momentary inconveniences. Think about Boston, for example. Now even the hard...

Easter / Vernal Equinox

Recent census numbers indicate that the Earth’s surface supports about 7.3 billion people (and growing). Of this number about 2.3 billion are considered Christians...