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ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for those whose locale has four separate seasons, those who do not have them and...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

FRED FIRST: Go West At Last, Old Man

Decades of frugality have come abruptly to an end. I have made the choice to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on...

FRED FIRST: Changing of the Guard

The theme for the Lenoir Words Writers Group this month is AUTUMN. And since I...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Good Riddance To The CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell

I grew up in the late 1960s and 1970s watching the CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite. Watching him almost every weekday at 6:30 p.m. not only...

MELINDA MYERS: Growing Moth Orchids for Months of Beauty

Add exotic long-lasting orchid blossoms to your indoor garden. These living bouquets provide months of beauty with minimal care. Just provide the proper growing...

FRED FIRST: Sky Trails and Their Tales

The sky is still above me here in Missouri as in Virginia. It makes me look up. I intended to wade into the pros...

SCOTT DREYER: Was Biden’s 2020 Win A Blessing In Disguise?

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV) Have you heard "The Legend...

Randy Huff: The Flattening of Space and Time is The Defining Action of Our Age

I remember clearly my first “remote” event. My beloved Kansas home was several hundred miles away from the little Oklahoma Church where my friends...

The Election of Trump Revealed His Enduing Popularity and The Democrats’ Many Fallacies

Prior to the election, the majority Democrats along with some Republicans through political propaganda, allegations, and legal processes, were attempting to ban and prevent...