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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...

Government is Ignominiously Satirical

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scot, born in Edinburgh in 1850; attended the Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh. Stevenson was a novelist,...

The Obamacare Enrollment Disaster – Whose Fault Is It?

When something goes awry, our first reaction is to find someone to blame.  In some cases, it is easy.  An accident may be directly...

Change – The One Thing That Is Constant

Nature is rapidly reclaiming the area where our garden flourished only five years ago. Although we enjoyed gardening, climbing those eighteen steep stone steps...

Other Debts

A primeval forest is a great sponge which absorbs and distills the rain water. Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and...

The Hiker and the Cell Phone

Wilson Creek shelter gradually comes into view as I approach through the late summer foliage. I've hiked here via Black Horse Gap from the...

An Unrecorded Tragedy

As a part of the apparently endless ‘Honey Do’ list, Sabrina recently asked me to clean out the dozen or so Bluebird nesting houses...