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BOB BROWN: “Teach Us to Number Our Days”

I was healthy and fit, a proponent of physical exercise, weighed myself daily with pleasing results, known for immodesty about how formerly and regularly I ran the Virginia 10...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Sanction Russia’s Shadow Fleet NOW

During the 2024 presidential campaign and going back to March 2023, President Trump repeatedly and...

DAWN CUSTALOW: A Mother’s Day to Remember

Mother’s Day - remembering and celebrating our mothers, not because they are or were perfect,...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Helplessly Hoping

When we had two consecutive years of testing to compare in June of 2022, Ann...

RANDY HUFF: Know When to Hold Your Peace

“Why don't you say your piece?” I asked my friend. “It need not be public....

Surf Fishing For The Big Ones

If you go to the beach this summer you should know about something that’s happening at night down near the water. I’m not talking about...

Farewell Roanoke and Thanks for the Memories – Joe Kennedy

I should have left Roanoke when I retired seven years ago. But I didn't.  Lack of imagination, I guess. Now I am planning to move to...

Homeward Bond

I thought of the song "Homeward Bound" by Simon and Garfunkel as I was traveling to my childhood home recently to empty its contents...

It Takes a Village To Raise A Child

What a wonderful sentiment! It is warm and fuzzy and conjures up visions of a Norman Rockwell town with a little red schoolhouse, smiling...

The Hidden River Bed Of O’Hain

I am an avid reader of history; an aficionado, though not a student or teacher. But I recently came upon a story I had...

It’s Time to Welcome Hummingbirds—Properly!

Along with Spring and Summer comes Ruby-throated hummingbirds. If you have not yet put up a feeder to attract these tiny birds, it’s not...