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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...

The Homeless Heart

I wonder if the pieces of my heart are still left out there. Are the pieces searching for me? Are they affixed between the...

Just Sitting In The Sunlight

I recall stepping outside of myself one day last year and watching me laze in the warm afternoon winter sun. Some of this appreciation...

Living in The Very Tall Shadow of Lucky Garvin

A requiem or eulogy is offered to honor the deceased.  But the deceased can’t blush.  That is why, while he remains breathing and larger...

Divide and Conquer: The Policy of Julius Caesar Get A Second Chance

The liberal strategy of ‘divide and conquer,’ borrowed from Julius Caesar ends up as ’Misdirection and Encumber.’ Divisive issues seem to be changing the...

What’s A Tree Thief … and Why All the Kisses?

Recently, I drove north on Interstate 81 from Lexington toward Staunton, spotting a thick green clump high in a stand of oaks along the...

Jeff’s Timely Tips on Deer Processing

My wife grew up hating venison. Her brothers would occasionally kill a deer, or take the hind quarters off road-kill that the state police...