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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won the Nathan‘s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which was located at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New...

BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

Preacher’s Corner – Tom Oster

          “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God            He created him, male and female he...

Feed Me, Seymour

Why I thought of this song from the forgettable film, "Little Shop of Horrors" from 1986, the year of my graduation from college, I'll...

Time to RSVP to Mother Earth’s Invitation

It’s RSVP time around here. The message comes in late spring—formal invitations to weddings, graduations or recitals—the quaint “RSVP” stamped in black curlicue at the...

Lost in the Derbs of Marrakech

It's easy to get lost in Marrakech, especially in the medina -the old city- with its alleyways which wind in torturous and seemingly endless...

Hidden Risks: A Surreptitious Calamity Afoot in the Northeast

The lakes of Massabesic, Squam, Umbagog, Winnipesaukee: their Abenaki names conjure up romantic images of New England waterways from ages long past. Yet each has...

A Modern Day Lazarus

Found in the middle of the road; hit by a car? Who knows? The russet-colored Eastern Screech Owl found his way to the Wildlife Center...