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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...

“I Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ For Where I Been . . .”

The common understanding of the word ‘bookmark’ is that slip of paper we interpose into a book to de-mark a finished page and the...

“Bugs Rule!” – Ask the Nature Lady by Marlene A. Condon

An ideal choice for anyone who wants to learn about insects and their relatives is the new book, Bugs Rule!, published in late 2013...

Plenty of Great Adventure So Very Close To Home

"I haven't been there in years; it's been a really long time," is my feeble summation of when I last visited Natural Bridge. Marybeth...

Silly Science – Part I

Science is defined as ‘knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation.’ In truth, science creates...

United Steel Workers (USW) Football Local #1?

A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled that full-scholarship players may be considered employees of a college or university....

The Changing Practice of Medicine

This past week I had lunch with a group of retired physicians. There were about 25 of us and that represented almost a thousand...