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SCOTT DREYER: Conduct Your “Year In Review”

James Clear, in his award-winning book Atomic Habits, encourages his readers to conduct an annual “Year in Review.”  There is nothing magical about the date January 1; personal growth and...

FRED FIRST: Small Moments. Long Life

Images: In our eyes. On our minds. From our memories. Conjured in our dreams. Right...

BOB BROWN: Decoding the New “Structure of Feeling”

This is the time to marshal up hope for the New Year. Hope is wanting...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Heroism Of Ahmed Al-Ahmed At Bondi Beach In Sydney, Australia

Not all Muslims are bad people. In fact, most Muslims are good and decent people....

DAWN CUSTALOW: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

For all who wait For all who hunger For all who’ve prayed For all who wonder Behold... Christmas is...

A Handshake For The Century

Sometimes you are a witness to history, and sometimes you step up and grab it by the hand. George Shuba was by any measure a...

Along The Crooked Road

It really is crooked, that western portion of Virginia's US Route 58, tightly weaves through the mountains and hollows of Grayson County and on...

Social Media….Not!

I just spent the weekend with a bunch of Boy Scouts and leaders in the Greenbrier Valley, camping and riding the Greenbrier Trail for...

Threshold to the Future

On my way home one night recently, I stopped at a grocery store to pick up a few items for our kitchen. Upon leaving...

When Life Was Simple

Do you remember when that was true?  The correct answer is that it was never simple.  It seemed so for a variety of reasons,...

Lois Lerner and the IRS: Surrogates for Autocracy

Government agencies, bureaus and departments have become known by their acronyms that have entered our lexicon and commonly used in daily discussions. What stands...