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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...

Showing Off Never a Good Idea

There was a time in my life that I was an incurable show-off. There were reasons for it, but I need not go into...

Life is a Dance Toward God

This phrase leapt off the page of a book I just finished, Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller, and it bubbled up on Saturday...

How About Not Parenting a Little

Have you ever stopped to think if there is a good time to “not parent”?  Is there ever a time when we do more...

The Entitlement Morass: Determination to Dependence to Despair

It is possible to receive almost two years of unemployment checks then switch over to long-term disability. The food stamp program (SNAP) budgeted at...

F.E.A.R.

I became reacquainted with this acronym for the word "fear" in my business development class this week- the letters stand for: False Evidence Appearing...

A Pound Of Flesh

Last year, someone asked me “if I had any extra venison?”  It was an innocent question asked by a non-hunter who had never killed,...